Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 2 | I do n't know well if it , there 's gas fire that , well all it means is they 've had it in but the gas is n't connected to the you probably have n't got a boiler . |
| 3 | Both were loaded with works which , as Heinz Berggruen says , ‘ Did n't do well because they were n't any good ’ . |
| 4 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 5 | Fourteen strategies were submitted For good measure Axelrod added a fifteenth , called Random , which simply played COOPERATE and DEFECT randomly , and served as a kind of baseline ‘ non-strategy ’ : if a strategy ca n't do better than Random , it must be pretty bad . |
| 6 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 7 | If you want special dishes with a difference that still have a sense of occasion and which are both tasty and good for you , then you could n't do better than choosing Tilda Basmati rice . |
| 8 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 9 | So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse . |
| 10 | You ca n't do better than that , even in London , can you ? ’ |
| 11 | Sara said that if they could n't do better than last year 's holiday , a caravan in the rain in West Wales , then it was n't worth bothering … |
| 12 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't you think that if after seven hundred years of London government , you ca n't do better than this , you ought to leave Ireland to govern itself , and get out with the best grace you may ? ’ |
| 14 | Like Spike Milligan , his jokes are very hard to explain — it 's difficult to say what exactly is funny about them and they do n't read well if you write them down . |
| 15 | But we 're OK if they ca n't aim better than this . ’ |
| 16 | yeah I know , but they , they do n't say well if you 're not orthodox you ca n't come here , do they ? |