Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [art] better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
5 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
6 | Jones , who started his professional career at Wimbledon before moving on to Leeds , Sheffield United and then Chelsea , said he had returned a better player . |