Example sentences of "well [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 2 | It flagged up certain erm items for concern , better that we know than not , not know them . |
| 3 | Better that we get rid of these people in the Labour Party if they do not want our involvement let them go and form their own party , as a trade union ordinarily formed originally formed the Labour Party ! |
| 4 | ‘ Better that we establish priorities of rank from the start . ’ |
| 5 | Better that I do n't that I do n't be proud better live in harmony . |
| 6 | ‘ He probably thought it better that you did n't know . |
| 7 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 8 | In fact some of them kill even better than they die . |
| 9 | L7 give better than they get , but the kids do n't get it at all . |
| 10 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 11 | I wanted my friends to know me better than they had before . |
| 12 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 13 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 14 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 15 | Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister . |
| 16 | They deserve better than they got on April 9 , 1992 . ’ |
| 17 | And he concluded : ‘ The British people deserve better than they got on 9th April , 1992 . ’ |
| 18 | The rest die better than they kill . |
| 19 | did better than they thought they would |
| 20 | A lot better than they 've got here . " |
| 21 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 22 | Dogs understand each other better than they understand people . |
| 23 | The prize , a box of chocolates , looked from the outside , a jolly sight better than they tasted . |
| 24 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 25 | ‘ I know Nell better than they do ! |
| 26 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 27 | I have never seen England play better than they did against Ireland and I 'm sure few other people would argue about that . |
| 28 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |
| 29 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 30 | Nobody knew the risks better than they did . |