Example sentences of "i [verb] better [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still if you mind 's made up , I know better than to argue with you . ’ |
| 2 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 3 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 5 | I knew better than to go in . |
| 6 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 7 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 8 | I knew better than to interrupt . |
| 9 | I knew better than to inquire . |
| 10 | I knew better than to attempt to hug Mr Broadhurst , although that was what I felt like doing , for not only did everything in his manner discourage physical relations , he had also given me a strict injunction . |