Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 2 | Perhaps he would have fared better if he pleaded one of the defences in section 24 ( see paragraphs 16–22 to 16–25 below ) . |
| 3 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 4 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 5 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 6 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 7 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 8 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 9 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 10 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 11 | I concede that the Chemical Industries Association could have done better and am grateful for the extra publicity ( Chem . |
| 12 | Even with the problems , he still believed the team should have done better and was disappointed with the standard of performance , although he conceded home advantage was telling . |
| 13 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 14 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 16 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 17 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . |
| 18 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 19 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 20 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 21 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 22 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 23 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 24 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 25 | He should have known better than agree to support a magistrate whose hatred of gipsies was so well known . |
| 26 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 27 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 28 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 29 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 30 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |