Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , it seems I 'd have been better letting it run on the blooming thing . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I think I would have been better with a woman , as you are , no ? |
| 3 | I know your degree meant a lot to you , but in all honesty you might have been better resting for longer … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She 'd have been better with someone nearer her own age , ’ the old woman murmured to herself . |
| 5 | Con always knew where to stop , and he knew where you should stop as well , and if you did n't , he reminded you that you 'd have been better following his example . ’ |
| 6 | You 'd have been better changing one . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe , if we had had children , she would have been better . |
| 8 | around about it , like whether we liked it or not , whether he was , it was a good thing to have had it , we should have been better not to have had it with the situation at the time , you know , that kind of mulling over might be |
| 9 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 10 | The architect owner admits that it might have been better to regard the converted building primarily as a house and to order priorities for the location and constructional ‘ envelopes ’ of rooms accordingly . |
| 11 | It might have been better , in Poindexter 's view , if no one had ever known . |
| 12 | The appointment of Mr Davies brought a mild objection from a member who felt it might have been better to have a change rather than a clone of Sir John Banham . |
| 13 | It might have been better had they looted , pillaged , raped , and left . |
| 14 | ( It might have been better to show the match . |
| 15 | Two adjacent tracks begin with almost identical motifs and in the same key ( tracks 16 & 17 ) , and it might have been better to place another work between them ; however , this is a small criticism of a thoughtfully prepared and magnificently played programme . |
| 16 | If we had been aware of the remarks , I suppose it might have been better not to have made the appointment . ’ |
| 17 | She had been instrumental in putting him in touch with Liza although , as things had turned out , he could not help thinking that it might have been better if he had never bumped into her that day in Piccadilly . |
| 18 | It might have been better at Vladimir for Holly than for the zeks herded into the communal cell blocks , but he had learned to eat what food was provided . |
| 19 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 20 | Indeed , it might have been better to divert funds away from RAM and put them towards a superior video card . |
| 21 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 22 | It might have been better to handle the sale more discreetly through dealer Angela Nevill , but either way they could never fetch the prices Bond paid for them ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ If he had n't bunked off till I was forty I think it might have been better . |
| 24 | It might have been better in the present case to regard the omission to caution as a breach of the spirit of the Code rather than a breach of the Code itself . |
| 25 | It might have been better if the barrister had not said what he did . |
| 26 | And sometimes since I have wished … ’ and here Minch dropped her voice low as if she was ashamed of what she was about to say , ‘ … well , there have been times when it seemed it might have been better if they had taken me . |
| 27 | But it might have been better to read it , for all during the show , creeping into her mind at every lull ( whenever , standing still , she had to gaze up adoringly at the hero , her Duke ) , an idea … . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't think it might have been better to let her have her say out , ’ suggested Desmond , ‘ and get it off her chest ? |
| 29 | You suspect it might have been better to spend just a little more in return for lots more computing potential and you have every justification in feeling misled . |
| 30 | Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ? |