Example sentences of "well [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better than watching telly all day long . ’ |
| 2 | Much better than booming out in an intimidating voice , " We ca n't hear you ! " |
| 3 | The letters , since this , had had to be collected from the boatyard office , and Laura felt that this made it not much better than living abroad . |
| 4 | ‘ Better than singing boastful tunes like ‘ Rule Britannia ’ as though you Brits were n't beaten hollow by us poor rebels , ’ was her riposte to that . |
| 5 | ‘ When we have so many spare rooms here it seemed eminently sensible , much better than allowing you to travel backwards and forwards . ’ |
| 6 | Better than mooning in your room . |
| 7 | That is not the case , and while it is true that deaf people from different countries can converse with each other better than hearing folk , they all have their own signs and structure . |
| 8 | Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her . |
| 9 | If you want special dishes with a difference that still have a sense of occasion and which are both tasty and good for you , then you could n't do better than choosing Tilda Basmati rice . |
| 10 | We can do better than taking simple means of three , however . |
| 11 | Well , better than getting half every time , in n it ? |
| 12 | Better than breathing down my poor husband 's neck , willing him to make tricks , do n't you think ? " |
| 13 | It s better than sitting in here every day . |
| 14 | Much better than sitting in pubs with young girls or even drinking with one 's colleagues , the hastily snatched pint of bitter before they caught their trains home to their wives . |
| 15 | Better than dripping around here . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Better than having claws like some people ! ’ |
| 17 | However , it is an awful lot better than having to go out to DOS each time , so I still recommend it . |
| 18 | Better than burning in Mrs Parvis 's hot red fires of hell . |
| 19 | And he says well , I can wait till tomorrow , better than going back and coming again . |
| 20 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 21 | I was 33 by then and played till the end of the season , which was at least better than going out on an injury . ’ |
| 22 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 23 | But , from personal experience , done properly it 's a hell of a lot better than walking out ignored and hard not to respond honestly to . |
| 24 | There was nothing Oz liked better than finding out how to do some new thing . |
| 25 | Better than finding them in a flap and fearing higher rates , as they were a week ago . |
| 26 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 27 | Quigley ( 1969 ) did find the Rochester Method ( fingerspelling with lip-reading ) better than the oral method and also better than signing for producing success in English . |
| 28 | It was better than walking , better than fighting the tangle of woodland , but whether it was better than lying in the clearing , I could n't decide . |
| 29 | It was pretty cool , certainly better than working . |
| 30 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |