Example sentences of "should know well [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
2 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
3 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
4 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
5 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
6 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
7 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
8 | ‘ You should know better than that , ’ he said and slapped me . |
9 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
10 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
11 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |