Example sentences of "[vb infin] do well [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
3 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
4 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
5 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
6 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
7 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
10 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |
13 | Taff approached them with the remark , ‘ You will have to do better than that , Boyos . |
14 | You 'll have to do better than that , son . ’ |
15 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that , love . |
16 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
17 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that . |
18 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that , ’ he said huskily . |
19 | You 'll have to do better than that . ’ |
20 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that ! ’ |
21 | I think I 'll get done better as well . |