Example sentences of "a [noun] well [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us see if we can do a bit better than this . |
| 2 | But a bit better than I expected . |
| 3 | Henry said almost apologetically , ‘ I think we could do you a bit better than Cranmer . |
| 4 | I 'm a bit better but I 've had to get out this morning to let June stay in ! |
| 5 | It was very good actually , the weather could have been a bit better but erm thanks very much for arranging it , it went very well . |
| 6 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 7 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 8 | Beany look a bit better as well . |
| 9 | After two pints , he felt a bit better and Ted arrived . |
| 10 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 11 | She was already feeling a bit better and she felt quite amused at this cool domination , especially as she was not going to pay any attention to it . |
| 12 | And er I started to feel a bit better and suddenly I felt ill again . |
| 13 | Well , they give , I , I do n't know , it 's the way they feel when you put them on , they sort of hold themselves up a bit better and |
| 14 | And he loved a horse better than he would a Rolls Royce ! |
| 15 | He was good at sports , and he could handle a boat better than any of the other men 's fathers . |
| 16 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 17 | And while holidaymakers are whipped up to almost frenzied levels of opportunistic greed by guidebooks which insist that real travellers never pay the first price they are quoted , few have any prospect of coming out of a deal better than the merchant who initiated it . |
| 18 | The homes , sanitation , gardens , football pitches , churches seemed a degree better than most of South Africa 's similar efforts . |
| 19 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 20 | He was the Bears ' top scorer , a point better than his captain , Steve Regeling , who nevertheless maintained his excellent consistency . |
| 21 | I mean they are at the moment and if I have a meeting well after about an hour it seems as though you 've |
| 22 | If Ballesteros was partially responsible for the all those individual successes , then Jacklin may deserve the credit not just for the Ryder Cup but for demonstrating that inspirational leadership , combined with an infinite capacity for detail , can produce a team better than the sum of its parts . |
| 23 | You can lift a wallet better than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 24 | Subsection ( 2 ) is clearly an exception to the nemo dat principle , since the buyers were able to confer upon the sub-purchaser a title better than that which the buyers had themselves , namely , a title free from the sellers ’ lien and which therefore gave to the sub-purchaser the right to immediate possession . |
| 25 | It is satisfying to play a game well but there can be greater satisfaction in coaching another to higher standards … |
| 26 | These people never realize that I can stand a row better than any of them , he thought . |
| 27 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 28 | Indeed , they are able to predict the zero-density frequency to a precision of 4 x 10 -14 ; from the present data , and they outline several improvements that can be made to the present apparatus , which already has a stability better than many primary caesium standards . |
| 29 | In practice it occurs when deaf children can write a word better than speak it . |
| 30 | I mean Margaret used to come in and everything was done for her , I mean she never had to do a thing well that hit her terribly you see . |