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Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] a better [noun] " in BNC.

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1	I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it .
2	So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ .
3	And Ipswich team manager Mick McGiven , Monkou 's former coach at Stamford Bridge , said : ‘ I do n't think I 've seen a better marking job on Chris . ’
4	No , I 've had a better idea !
5	I 've got a better idea . "
6	‘ We could manage without it , but — No , I 've got a better idea .
7	‘ I 've got a better idea , ’ Sam said , leaning forward .
8	Well , I 've got a better idea .
9	I know wait a minute , wait a minute , I 've got a better idea .
10	I 've got a better job . ’
11	‘ Mary , dear , one night when I have made a better meal than I did tonight , I plan to go a little berserk , too , in order to have your solace . ’
12	The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data .
13	‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’
14	Not even for Christine , whom she 'd found distant and uninterested , as if in her mind she 'd created a better place and preferred to wander there .
15	So you 've found a better job ? ’
16	‘ If you 've got a better idea , why do n't you say so ? ’
17	If they show you a picture , you 've got a better chance .
18	Obviously you 've got a better eye tha than I have , but er
19	I 'm not going to do a match report either , I 'll leave that to someone who 's a bit more eloquent , and who 's got a better memory , I ca n't even seem to remember what happened 10 mins ago let alone 2 days .
20	If I could cite one example of that , the accountancy profession recruits seventy per cent of its intake from non-accountancy graduates , and in fact , a student taking accountancy , and getting a not particularly good degree , even a lower second class honours degree , can sometimes be regarded by employers as having demonstrated not particularly good aptitude for accountancy , and be discounted in favour of a candidate from another major subject , who 's got a better class of degree .
21	You should ask them both questions on the card , that way we 've got a better chance of getting them bloody card for yourself in n it ?
22	It 's a chilly wind you know , I hope we 've got a better bus tonight
23	We 've got a better side now and Torquay are struggling a bit .
24	Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently .
25	I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding .
26	They 've got a better lock .
27	ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ?
28	ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ?
29	Up to 50 per cent of people with heart disease or cancer could probably have prevented or delayed the onset of their illness if they had eaten a better diet or stopped smoking .
30	There are earlier Berman recordings of nearly all the pieces in this latest recital ; in no instance is the interpretation all that different ( though he has found a better edition of Funérailles ) and in most it is rather less satisfying .