Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] well [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still if you mind 's made up , I know better than to argue with you . ’ |
| 2 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 3 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 5 | I knew better than to go in . |
| 6 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 7 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 8 | I knew better than to interrupt . |
| 9 | I knew better than to inquire . |
| 10 | I knew better than to attempt to hug Mr Broadhurst , although that was what I felt like doing , for not only did everything in his manner discourage physical relations , he had also given me a strict injunction . |
| 11 | ‘ You know better than to ask questions like that . |
| 12 | She wondered what he meant by that last remark about his brother , so quickly bitten off , but she knew better than to ask . |
| 13 | She knew better than to ask her husband what this letter was about however , and awaited his reaction in the reserved , watchful way which she had found safest to adopt in her husband 's presence and which usually concealed more vehement feelings . |
| 14 | She knew better than to ask what kind of business . |
| 15 | She knew better than to take a wanted man near the Welsh gate ; but the castle gate was the one land approach to the town , the eastward and inviolable gate , overshadowed by the bulk of the castle and the strength of its garrison . |
| 16 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 17 | She knew better than to invite him back to Water Gypsy for a coffee . |
| 18 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 19 | She knew better than to urge them to dress in the fashions Lachlan had learned abroad ; but all the maids were driven frantic sewing silk and linen , gold thread , fur and leather . |
| 20 | She knew better than to walk around the front of the house . |
| 21 | She knew better than to reply . |
| 22 | She knew better than to disobey Julius when he used that particular tone of voice , though . |
| 23 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 24 | and we know better than to surrender . |
| 25 | They know better than to believe anything they hear , unless I 'm the person who tells them . ’ |
| 26 | Denis made threatening noises , but they knew better than to take him seriously . |
| 27 | He never gave an explanation and they knew better than to ask , but they guessed it would be a problem connected with his increasing consumption of drink . |
| 28 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |
| 29 | They knew better than to insult their hosts by open mention of this superiority ; such bad manners would disgrace the clan . |
| 30 | Ex-Eton schoolboy Jonathan Barton was bullied but unlike Charles , he knew better than to take his complaint to the headmaster . |