Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [art] better [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So you 've found a better job ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If you 've got a better idea , why do n't you say so ? ’ |
| 16 | If they show you a picture , you 've got a better chance . |
| 17 | Obviously you 've got a better eye tha than I have , but er |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | It 's a chilly wind you know , I hope we 've got a better bus tonight |
| 20 | We 've got a better side now and Torquay are struggling a bit . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They 've got a better lock . |
| 24 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 25 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |