Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [been] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely I should have been better armed against the deceits of the devil . |
| 2 | I reckon I 'd have been better off with them , they do n't try to hang one on you … |
| 3 | I 'd have been better off keeping that one two . |
| 4 | Perhaps I tried too hard when I would have been better off relaxing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 6 | I do n't know she 'd have been better off here . |
| 7 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 8 | You 'd have been better off doing your time , Jack . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd have been better off staying in the hole ! |
| 10 | You 'd have been better off . |
| 11 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 12 | Another , after describing her loveless relationship with an unsatisfactory husband , is amazed at Jim Dixon 's remark that she would have been better off if she had n't married . |
| 13 | You would have been , you , you , you would have been better off paying your normal rates as you used to pay |
| 14 | Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure . |
| 15 | In other words we would have been better off cashing the precept and keeping the money under the mattress . |
| 16 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 17 | Harold Wilson was , when he might have been better engaged in the affairs of the nation , extremely solicitous in seeing that arrangements were made for Marcia Williams , particularly in relation to her progeny . |
| 18 | Surely it could have been better spent on real conservation schemes , or even helping some of those small farmers facing bankruptcy and eviction ? |
| 19 | He 'd have been better off getting them to help him compose a Dear Marje letter . |
| 20 | Maybe after all he 'd have been better off like his Dad , quietly pushing papers round a desk in an office at the Gas Board for nine hours a day for nearly fifty years . |
| 21 | He 'd have been better off to of crawled back down there and apologise |
| 22 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 23 | He finished his beer sadly , wondered if he would have been better off , after all , among them at the club . |
| 24 | Unlike Jane , Mark did not feel that he would have been better off taking a different subject ; he had decided that he was unsuited to any kind of academic work , although most of his friends were arts students . |
| 25 | Was n't there a tiny nagging feeling on watching the re-runs of Butterflies that perhaps he would have been better off sticking to television comedy series and enjoying their rich rewards ? |
| 26 | It would have been better placed a couple of weeks later ; at least the readers would have been familiar with the mood and pace of the album . |