Example sentences of "better [subord] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still learning and we 're still better than them you know what I mean ? |
| 2 | It might be difficult and changes be necessary , but would this not be better than what we have now ? |
| 3 | And any word-of-mouth 'd be better than what we 've got at the moment . |
| 4 | A mathematical analogy might help us to see what is involved here : to affirm a real affirmation is positive , but to affirm something which is itself negative is to end up with a negative in the same way — no better than what we are criticizing . |
| 5 | Better than what we 've got it 's a slimline , it 's only that wide |
| 6 | It 's better than what we had at Christmas |
| 7 | But they 're not prepared to , to leave NUPE , let go of something you know unless it 's better than what they 've had . |
| 8 | Well no , no I know but I thought well that does n't seem to well that 's better than what they had . |
| 9 | Well it was better than what theirs was , cos theirs come out of the Rhine . |
| 10 | Anything , but anything was better than what she had been through . |
| 11 | No , no it 's a lot better than what it was he went to the doctor and the doctor said . |
| 12 | At this stage , Neil Miller was saying to all Harvard dealers : " Some of you lot think you 're better than what you are , just because you 're earning big money here . |
| 13 | What you get will , in fact , be very much better than what you see ! |
| 14 | And even today hut sections can still be bought and despite the fact that they 're forty years old the quality of the wood in them is often better than what you can buy today . |
| 15 | Keegan described the player he is chasing as being the right age and pedigree and insisted : I 'll only bring people in who are better than what I 've got . ’ |
| 16 | Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across |
| 17 | Better than what I 'm doing any of it though . |
| 18 | It 's a lot better than what he thought it would have been . |
| 19 | I says you 're all er very er I says , Your method my method it 's far and away in er er better than what your 's is . |
| 20 | I prefer Beethoven , actually I 'm not sure I do prefer Beethoven , but had you said Bach I would have preferred that , but I do n't see that that I mean you 're implying that that makes me better , or at least makes me think I 'm better than somebody who likes Madonna , and that I do n't agree with . |
| 21 | ‘ Some people say no reform would be better than one which destroys the agriculture of the most efficient , provides an open cheque that must increase costs year in year out , pensions the part-timer and leaves the consumer and taxpayer to bear the burden ’ . |
| 22 | But a brain with a fixed number of cells almost certainly works better than one whose cells are constantly dividing . |
| 23 | I 've seen the transport systems in Barcelona and Paris and they are so much better than ours it 's embarrassing . ’ |
| 24 | Still better than our our ten pi er |
| 25 | The wines were probably better than anything we shall ever drink again in England , and served in the proper manner . |
| 26 | Clearly they thought that Solomon in all his glory looked far better than anything which was likely to be found growing in a field . |
| 27 | ‘ The engine then answered so much better than anything which had been tried before that the same principle has been followed ever since . ’ |
| 28 | She thought it was better than anything she read in books . |
| 29 | It was all so much better than anything she could possibly have envisaged . |
| 30 | There were the ‘ Carry Ons ’ , a new radio series with Kenneth Horne — Beyond Our Ken had matured into Round The Horne and was better than anything he had done on air before . |