Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Amiss was not entirely convinced that Trueman had been murdered , he did feel a sense of unease about the Admiral 's safety , so he was relieved to see that he seemed to be getting on rather better with his committee colleagues than the Sunday experiences had promised . |
| 2 | THE Queen has always liked Fergie and gets on much better with her than she does with her other daughter-in-law , Princess Diana . |
| 3 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 4 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 5 | I got on much better with one of the corporals , Corporal House , who was the cook . |
| 6 | Huh , er just , please help us , you know we get on much better , of course you can give an explanation , all Mr wants , you requested is said whether you did raise it , of course you could say , we did n't , I did n't because erm of so and so , because there was n't an opportunity or whatever , but do tell us whether yes or no whether you raised it surely that 's possible Mr is n't it ? , is n't it ? , am I trying to assist you , during my people are just not answering the questions , put it again in blunt form Mr would you please |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure that we 'll be able to get on much better in the future . ’ |
| 8 | So that he had to get a job elsewhere — somewhere much better , ’ said Pickerage . |
| 9 | The trouble is that whereas actors move and speak as nature would have most of us do ( only rather better ) , in the performance of music we are using tools ( with the exception of the human voice ) which are in some way external ; they have to be mastered from without rather than from within — and things do go wrong . |
| 10 | No doubt you tried the same thing with him — implying that we 'd got along rather better than we ought to have ? ’ |
| 11 | For some reason , Abel 's offering seemed to go down much better with God than his brother 's did . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 13 | Both she and Lubor had a glass of beer to go with it , and , having not been hungry , the meal went down much better than Fabia had anticipated . |
| 14 | If it 's a positive , how can you make it more positive , remembering our aim really is , good better better better better . |
| 15 | If it 's a positive , how can you make it more positive , remembering our aim really is , good better better better better . |
| 16 | The model fits variations in US fertility trends reasonably well , although not necessarily much better than conventional economic variables ( D. P. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 17 | So much better , in fact , that he could no longer resist the urge to go and see Amanda . |
| 18 | Although triticale will never replace wheat , it is a vitally important addition to the armoury needed to defeat famine , precisely because it is so much better adapted to the marginal lands on which so many of the poor and hungry live . |
| 19 | [ Next day ] Feel SO MUCH BETTER ! |
| 20 | He had that high-coloured English complexion , which looks so much better with a suntan . |
| 21 | Your mother had an amazing imagination — that 's where yours comes from — she could have done so much better with her life … |
| 22 | She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan . |
| 23 | The development of the Clos des Galées at Rouen , under the patronage of the French crown ( notably in the reign of Charles V ) , is matched by the steps taken by Henry V to develop a royal shipyard at Southampton , so much better positioned than the traditional one at the Tower of London , and by the appointment of royal officers to supervise its working and administration . |
| 24 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 25 | We 're so much better off these days : we 're in and out of hospital in 24 hours , 48 hours or three days at the most . |
| 26 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
| 27 | So much better |
| 28 | But she is settling in much better now and looking forward to the best Christmas dinner money can buy . ’ |
| 29 | I think we 'll get along much better , once you 've gotten that through your head . |
| 30 | ‘ Manchester United offered me a contract that was only just better than the one I was on at Ayresome Park . |