Example sentences of "better [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 2 | Better to stroll back the way she had come , then perhaps she would cross over the road and look in the souvenir shop . |
| 3 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 4 | ‘ Better to go straight upstairs . |
| 5 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 6 | The Front 's traditional candidate in the town told reporters that ‘ my friend Jean-Marie would do better to stand elsewhere ’ explaining that Niçois voters did not trust outsiders ! |
| 7 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 8 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 9 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It might be hard , ’ she said , ‘ but better to find out now about Tom than later . ’ |
| 11 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd do better to look where we 're going , ’ she snapped , ‘ rather than trying to work out my vital statistics ! ’ |
| 13 | What was he if not the creature who circled that dark silhouette , sometimes letting a wing-tip brush the brickwork , sometimes soaring on an up-draught , better to look down , better to choose , better to fall on the prey ? |
| 14 | Better to look down , better to choose . |
| 15 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 16 | Better to surrender quietly to that hell of pain , to slide into it , to crumble and fold like burning straw , to merge and coalesce and become one with it , until , phoenix-like , she floated away on the other side , whole and free . |
| 17 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 18 | You 'd do better to buy in from outside . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | For the time being , however , investors might do better to clear out their portfolios than to add to them . |
| 21 | She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her ! |
| 22 | I 'd do better to jog home than drive . ’ |
| 23 | Better to turn up with a single flower . |
| 24 | He had n't rung to make an appointment , better to turn up at the door and press the bell like any other cheapskate private detective . |
| 25 | Better to turn over in his mind the arrangements he and Bicker had organised , to search for loose ends , gaps in the plan . |
| 26 | ‘ Would n't you do better to turn in ? ’ she asked . |
| 27 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 28 | Better to stay still … it would take them time to catch him here … |
| 29 | Mr Gummer is inclined to give a snap reply to his critics , when he would do better to check carefully what they have said . |
| 30 | Better to have only 1,000 farmers at an event , but almost all of them intimately involved with growing a particular crop , the logic runs , than 10,000 farmers of whom only a small proportion will be interested in particular machines . |