Example sentences of "good [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 32 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 33 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 34 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 35 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 36 | One seldom gets on well with one 's family if one has the impression that one is better than them , and I used to dream that I had been found , abandoned in mysterious circumstances . |
| 37 | Evil class admissible today even a lot better than them . |
| 38 | No I 've got some , I 've got some better than them . |
| 39 | And I , it 's better than them round there , they even sent one another a frigging Christmas card ! |
| 40 | They 're quite good it looks better than them for office do n't it ? they 're dual power battery and solar |
| 41 | He 's better than them even . |
| 42 | you could get better than them . |
| 43 | Still learning and we 're still better than them you know what I mean ? |
| 44 | ‘ I s'pose it was better than 'im being lonely . ’ |
| 45 | After meeting them , Nez Perce headmen including Lawyer and Timothy dispatched a delegation to St Louis in late summer 1831 to answer claims that ‘ the white man 's religion was better than theirs , and that they would all be lost if they did not embrace it ’ ( Catlin ) . |
| 46 | When it comes to taste , our tongues are slightly better than theirs . |
| 47 | ‘ Our army is better than theirs — let's fight them ! ’ |
| 48 | He thinks I think I 'm better than him because I 'm doing a science degree and he 's doing Fine Art . |
| 49 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 50 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 51 | He says she 's better than him . |
| 52 | Me , I 'm dozing even better than him |
| 53 | ‘ Well , lad , it 's only because I think you 're worth somebody better than her . |
| 54 | Mrs Simpson was no prettier than her , no more clever than her , no better than her . |
| 55 | I think she 's a bit upset , I think she thinks I 'm better , I 'm better than her because I beat her in that , and I think she 's , a bit of shock for her . |
| 56 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 57 | But if she was marryin' one of her own kind she would n't get anybody to care for her any better than me . |
| 58 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 59 | They are better than me . |
| 60 | They are better than me at some things . |