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 .
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