Example sentences of "do better [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great news , you might think , for Aunt Agatha , who had begun to fear that , instead of taking young Billy Whizzquid 's advice and putting her savings under the professional management of a unit trust , she would have done better to put them under her mattress . |
| 2 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 3 | As events turned out , therefore , the management might have done better to realise that there are competing definitions as to what constitutes ‘ efficiency ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 6 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 7 | He knew perfectly well that they were not very good prizes and that he would have done better to lay out his money at Woolworth 's , but he did not wish to hear Emmie telling him so . |
| 8 | Would n't she of done better to take erm a six month 's course in secretarial skills ? |
| 9 | He would have done better to hoard a fast , independent ship with good signalling equipment , for on the Queen Elizabeth , which had been given tasks of her own , he became a virtual prisoner , unable to respond to events or give directions . |
| 10 | She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her ! |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd have done better to leave him alone . ’ |
| 12 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 13 | It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory . |
| 14 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 15 | She 'd have done better to drown her sorrows in a bottle of red wine , and let the world go to blazes . |
| 16 | Repton is a case in point , and perhaps Mansbridge would have done better to omit works such as Repton 's Sarsden in Oxfordshire that has nothing to do with Nash except for stylistic associations . |
| 17 | He would have done better to have let his temper cool . |
| 18 | Maybe Mrs Levine would have done better to have cast her book in the form of a life of Montagu , who was of considerable interest , since , in substance , much of it is . |
| 19 | Scriabin 's First Symphony is a cyclic , tautly structured work than can well manage without being manoeuvred towards the sound world of the Poem of Ecstasy , and Segerstam would have done better to have had more of an ear for pacing and projection than is evident here . |
| 20 | The bourgeoisie remained unsuffering , and Marx might have done better to have the carbuncles professionally seen to . |
| 21 | As it turned out , she would have done better to have stayed on her pillow , for there she might have been found by Maud or Enid who would possibly have put two and two together at the curious sight of a cat and frog nestling on the same bed . |
| 22 | I would have done better to have held my tongue . ’ |
| 23 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 24 | I suggest that , instead of choosing the mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor for his desert island disc , the Prime Minister would have done better to have chosen something from the Beggar 's Opera because there is a whole chorus on the London streets which could join in . |
| 25 | He gave as the ground for his refusal Matadial 's acceptance that her statement to the police was incorrect , but Mr. Pantry did not oppose the application and their Lordships consider that the judge would have done better to read the statement before giving his ruling . |
| 26 | The association would do better to invest some of that money in advertising to attract a larger audience to the annual meeting . |
| 27 | I think you might do better to live with him for a while , before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years . |
| 28 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 29 | Anyone wanting these Mozart quartets will do better to acquire them , along with their ten far finer successors of 1782–90 , satisfyingly played by the Quartetto Italiano in the Philips Complete Edition ( CD 422 512–2PME8 , 8/91 — eight mid-price discs ) . |
| 30 | Those in Darlington would do better to collaborate with the council to ensure the scheme 's success rather than lining the pockets of the legal profession . |