Example sentences of "do far better [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
2 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
3 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
4 | ‘ Actually , you 've done far better than I expected . |
5 | It was her first Party conference , and she was certain she could do far better than them . |
6 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |