Example sentences of "[verb] do better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 2 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 3 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 4 | As the Young family regularly pits its wits against the Mastermind contenders with spectacular lack of success most Sundays , I was expected to do better than usual . |
| 5 | ‘ Horace always wants to do better than anyone 's done before . ’ |
| 6 | He had two almost contemporary biographies and a wealth of oral tradition to draw on , and out of these materials he made a lively and dramatic portrait , full of sentiment and warmth , which easily outdistanced in popularity the biographies written by later writers who tried to do better . |
| 7 | no real worry about it , but erm I want to do better |
| 8 | Here , where I could 've done better , if only I 'd understood , if only he 'd helped me ; if only this , if only that . |
| 9 | We are improving already , and hope to do better still by and by . ’ |
| 10 | D had the same complaint about C. B and C also admitted to finding it very difficult to manage their immediate subordinates , C and D respectively , who seemed to do better if treated as colleagues and left alone . |
| 11 | He seemed to do better at Arse and had a good season when we won the league . |
| 12 | They beat everyone in sight — and still yearn to do better . |
| 13 | You 've really got to do better than this , Clarissa , she told herself . |
| 14 | Any winged craft has got to do better than Mach 5 to get into space . |
| 15 | When the buyer said , ‘ You 've got to do better than that , ’ Harry assumed he had to lower his price in order to close the sale . |
| 16 | We have got to do better this time . ’ |
| 17 | Erm , now Barbara , I know you have n't been in the job as long as the other two , but er , really you 've got to do better than this I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | You 've got to do better . |
| 19 | He 's got to do better than that . |
| 20 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
| 21 | Many individuals stand to do better by leaving SERPS and entering a private pension arrangement into which part of their National Insurance contributions and those of the employer are invested . |
| 22 | Having said that , we would agree that in the past 25 years Oxford has tended to do better than Cambridge on several fronts . |
| 23 | Other countries seem to do better . |
| 24 | Unskilled workers tend to do better than the professionals , enjoying the advantages of a free market for the first time in their lives . |
| 25 | A recent survey by the bank has discovered that people who have experience of unemployment before becoming self-employed tend to do better than those who give up a job to do so . |
| 26 | Indeed , this variation in size very closely matches their performance : those larger than average tend to do better than the GCD , and those smaller tend to do worse . |
| 27 | But do n't forget that over a longer period , shares are bound to do better . |
| 28 | The citizens charter reform means that the Government are making a determined effort to move away from the era when the gentlemen in Whitehall always knew best towards a more open , accountable public service , striving to do better . |
| 29 | Would economically and socially like to do better . |
| 30 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |