Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 2 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 3 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 4 | No , wait a minute , I 've a better idea ; she might be able to get Paul to bring them if she can catch him before he leaves for the airport . ’ |
| 5 | The only difference between now and the World Cup is that I have a better suntan . |
| 6 | In this instance I have a better chance of getting the ball close by using the slope to let the ball run down to the flag . |
| 7 | ‘ I have a better idea . |
| 8 | If you 'll pardon me , I have a better idea . |
| 9 | Desperately she sought for an excuse , anything not to have to face his mother 's frosty manner again , but before she could think of anything he said , ‘ On second thoughts , I have a better idea . ’ |
| 10 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ To be honest , I think I have a better profile . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , but she has a better memory than me , even . |
| 13 | If she makes sure she is looking good , feeling good , working well , she has a better chance of taking a cool look at him from a distance and deciding if she really wants him in her life . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you have a better idea ? ’ |
| 15 | you 've a better chance of coming between her and Pie than I have . |
| 16 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 17 | She had a better idea . |
| 18 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 19 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 20 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 21 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 22 | ‘ I do — unless you have a better idea ? ’ |
| 23 | In every case , you have a better chance of being considered if you are able to put your performance on record . |
| 24 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 25 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 26 | ‘ You have a better suggestion , of course , ’ said the Thing . |
| 27 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 28 | If the ovaries are removed , ovaries stop working there is treatment there to prevent us having disease , why should n't we take it and why should n't we have a better life ? |
| 29 | My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life . |
| 30 | The next dawn we had a better look . |