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 .
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