Example sentences of "[verb] do [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 2 | They therefore adopt a deeply hostile stance towards intellectual developments of the last two hundred years such as Darwinism and Biblical Criticism , when they would have done better to engage with them and even turn them to their advantage . |
| 3 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 4 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 5 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 6 | So you seem to cut yourself off from anything you 've done before to concentrate on what |
| 7 | Sir Bryan had done well to play to his handicap , but he could not resist telling everyone what he would have done if he 'd had his James Braid putter . |
| 8 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 9 | Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so . |
| 10 | It 's done well to stay on two and a half years really . |