Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern linguistics is a field full of conflicting theories , and an external observer would be hard put to accept one as better than the rest . |
| 2 | ‘ Although Victoria Sanchez would do it even better than I would . ’ |
| 3 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 4 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 5 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 6 | As it happens , he paces himself much better than Corbett and other stand-up comics , and in his own sober way milks the material ruthlessly . |
| 7 | I know you , Lissa ; I know you far better than you think , and I know exactly what 's going on in that secretive labyrinth of a mind . |
| 8 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 9 | And yet I know it almost better than my own street . |
| 10 | She had seen his point of view and expressed it even better than he did . |
| 11 | Though I trust you may have something slightly better than a stall , ’ suggested the gentleman wryly . |
| 12 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 13 | This month , strategy will serve you far better than brute force . |
| 14 | ‘ They knew him much better than I did . |
| 15 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 16 | I liked it far better than this North Africa , which is more ‘ civilised ’ and cultivated . |
| 17 | Barry now parodies himself even better than Spitting Image . |
| 18 | This makes them even better because if there is a problem you will have two chances of being paid instead of one . |
| 19 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |