Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] well [subord] [to-vb] " 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 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 3 | ( 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 . " ) |
| 4 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 5 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 6 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 7 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 10 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 11 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 12 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 13 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 14 | Harvard dealers who had left knew better than to say where to , since the walk out of its top dealers to London & Norwich Investment Services Ltd in May 1987 . |
| 15 | When the initial grief of the desertion had passed she had known better than to mention her father 's name . |
| 16 | She had thought longingly of the candle left behind in Guy 's chamber , but had known better than to mention it . |