Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , really , for in his limited first-class exposure he has looked a much better wing or perhaps outside centre . |
| 2 | I reckon our own world champs Field Marshal Montgomery would have done a much better job . |
| 3 | Her husband Francis had made a slightly better showing than her daughter Jennifer , who was looking particularly ragged . |
| 4 | The overriding conclusion was that the Japanese have made a much better job of winning the commitment of their employees at all levels . |
| 5 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 6 | Tell you what , I 've got a far better idea . |
| 7 | Yeah , I mean it 's about to decide whether you lose situations now I lose Everybody else is much better than me , everybody else has got a far better right to actually |
| 8 | I seemed to have got a significantly better offer on this . |
| 9 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
| 10 | If whatever happened to Summerchild had n't happened , I think , once again , then … then Timmy and I might have had a rather better quality of life . |
| 11 | With your qualifications you could have had a much better job , a better salary . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got an even better one — told me by a cowman years ago — when charged by a bull , stand your ground and when it gets close enough , grab it by the nose . |
| 13 | " I 've got an even better idea , " Sue smiled . |
| 14 | In this research , the investigators shall be examining the process of change under several different headings : the economy ; social relations ; and political institutions , drawing for the most part upon Soviet newspapers and journals , which have become a much better guide to the process of change under current policies of glasnost or openness . |
| 15 | Although in your native country , England , there are in my epoch six times as many people as in 1816 , nevertheless , the individual is guaranteed a much better chance to lead a life free from catastrophe and , if catastrophe occurs , a much better chance to be helped to recover . |