Example sentences of "do better [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 2 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |
| 3 | I 'd have done better just believing everything I was taught when I was young ! |
| 4 | Tommy Mooney should have done better just before half time after going through but he rushed his shot and failed to even hit the target . |
| 5 | Successful , when they would have done better not to be so successful . |
| 6 | Thereafter McCoist had two ‘ goals ’ disallowed — one inexplicably — and he might have done better immediately after the break when Hateley , the most dominant attacking figure on the field , crossed to the head of the striker after an excellent run down the right . |
| 7 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 8 | If he 'd had a bike he would have er done better then . |
| 9 | Whatever the outcome of the battle , Microsoft could hardly do better financially , be it worldwide or in Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ I can do better here , on my own . |
| 11 | ‘ She 'll do better here , Comfort . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll do better tomorrow . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , but we shall do better tomorrow , ’ Woodruffe insisted . |
| 14 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 15 | Why should he do better now he 's ousted Chamberlain ? |
| 16 | Britain might do better still . |
| 17 | Remember that this is the average rate : new investments should do better still . |
| 18 | The caff now seems to have more customers than the railway , and would do better still if they cleared the tables . |
| 19 | Anyway he 'll judge that one well but it 's er falls neatly for Gemmell and a good lay off here to Kingsley Black early chance for Nottingham Forest and really Kingsley Black will be as they say rather disappointed he did n't do better there Ron Atkinson . |
| 20 | She had slipped into doing no work for some days , would he look at it , please , as a kind of holiday — after all she had not had one since they had started on the course — she hoped she would be able to do better again next week . |
| 21 | We are improving already , and hope to do better still by and by . ’ |
| 22 | Here and there where the ground was more open near the lake-edge there were signs of cultivation as though someone with crude implements had scratched and dug a little to encourage nature , already prodigal , to do better still . |
| 23 | For instance , erm because it was all side , Douglas pine , Douglas fir was doing better there than in . |
| 24 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 25 | Smaller energy firms did better still , climbing by almost 20% . |
| 26 | They did better off out there . ’ |
| 27 | It leads to a lethargy I think we do better without . |
| 28 | I do n't care how different he is underneath , ’ she cut through Davide 's protests , ‘ how much bluster it is , blusterers make poor husbands , never could make a woman happy for more than five minutes , and anyway , Caterina can do better and I 'll see to it that Rosalba does better too . |