Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 2 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 3 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 4 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing I 'd like better than to stay here and make love to you all day , but I think after breakfast we should get back to the palazzo . ’ |
| 6 | In such cases , it was best to say one would go directly and to rush out of the room and hope the substitute finally brought would convince him this was what had been asked for . |