Example sentences of "should [vb infin] well [subord] " 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 Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession .
12 This was McConnochie 's third success in his career and he gave a hint that there may be more to come in the Hennessy at Newbury on Saturday , saying : ‘ Gala 's Image should run well as long as the ground is not sticky . ’
13 The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram .
14 She should perform well while running and reaching , but be docile enough for his family , including young children .
15 The normally aspirated Ninety diesel should perform better than the 2.25 Series III vehicles you have run before .
16 The boom days of the 1980s will never return and though profits should recover well when the upturn finally comes that is largely in the price .
17 For it was proper that in matters of sacrifice the ruler should fare better than the commoner and the nation than the ruler , since the whole should always be superior to the part …
18 It will certainly be a challenging year for , but with our strengths in quality and efficiency , we should fare better than our competitors and be in a strong position when better times return .
19 If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s .
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