Example sentences of "[pron] would have [been] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , it seems I 'd have been better letting it run on the blooming thing . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I think I would have been better with a woman , as you are , no ? |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd have been better with someone nearer her own age , ’ the old woman murmured to herself . |
| 4 | Con always knew where to stop , and he knew where you should stop as well , and if you did n't , he reminded you that you 'd have been better following his example . ’ |
| 5 | You 'd have been better changing one . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe , if we had had children , she would have been better . |
| 7 | It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree . |
| 8 | It 'd have been better if I 'd kept them two . |
| 9 | But he 'd have been , he 'd have been better , well well he would n't have done . |
| 10 | He would have been better still , however , to have decided differently , and to have agreed to at least some of the cases being re-examined for possible pardon . |
| 11 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 12 | I feel it would have been better to include this as a subheading to each mountain . |
| 13 | ‘ It would have been better if he had praised us no matter what anyone said , ’ Sheila said when the girls were alone with Rose , disappointed that he had failed to support them in public no matter what his intentions were . |
| 14 | On reflection , the owner felt that it would have been better adopt the traditional method of ‘ tanking ’ the semi-basement lower floor with in situ asphalt . |
| 15 | The logical re-use of existing services has led to the retention of the overly utilitarian postwar outshot when it would have been better to demolish it and to restore the four-square appearance of the pre-war building . |
| 16 | I felt afterwards it would have been better not to make such an effort to finish it all . |
| 17 | So I said : ‘ It would have been better if we had never met . ’ |
| 18 | For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness . ’ |
| 19 | OK , so relations were unsteady with little brother right now , but it would have been better than this . |
| 20 | The thought crept into him that it would have been better if there had have been trees outside . |
| 21 | It would have been better for it to have a uniformly brown plumage . |
| 22 | Third , it would have been better to use freelances whose connection with the DGSE could have been denied , whereas both Mafart and Prieur made telephone calls to DGSE numbers in France when first arrested . |
| 23 | From the transmission point of view , it would have been better to site a new station on the South coast , he said . |
| 24 | Before he died in 1811 , an opium-addicted pauper in Marylebone Workhouse , he may have reflected that it would have been better had he never left the low-lying fields of Huntspill . |
| 25 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 26 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 27 | Last night the Foreign Office said : ‘ We can see now it would have been better if the advice had not been given . ’ |
| 28 | It would have been better to build secure mortuaries rather than putting one 's money into an expensive contraption . |
| 29 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 30 | It would have been better if she had kept a low profile . ’ |