Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some had fared considerably better than others , leading to a differentiated society . |
| 2 | Even this , in its way a successful transaction , had done no better than limp lamely to its achievement . |
| 3 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 4 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
| 5 | So far things had gone much better than she had expected . |
| 6 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |