Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] better " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctors say he might go off sudden-like , so I thought I better warn you . ’ |
| 2 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 3 | She said she was going to but then she thought about me told Jean last week and she 's baby sitting that 's why Jim is n't staying tonight so she thought she better not Jean asked why and she said come over if you , . |
| 4 | ‘ So you understand me better than I understand myself . |
| 5 | It seems though that they handle them better . |
| 6 | Later , Deborah thought she understood more precisely Laura 's vision of company structure while she was abroad ; ‘ she had Moira to sell more , Meirion to produce more and me to do it better ’ . |
| 7 | In the words of Alfieri : ‘ Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better . ’ |
| 8 | As well as this he mentions the issue of settling for half , ‘ Now we settle for half , and I like it better . ’ |
| 9 | Here Alfieri repeats one of the main issues raised in his introduction , ‘ Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’ |
| 12 | That 's what Roy done , you know why , he come into my house and I goes you better not come in my door he 'll attack you . |
| 13 | And I suppose I better get er Carl 's birthday card while I 'm at it . |
| 14 | As a general rule Robbie gave people the benefit of the doubt , until she knew them better . |
| 15 | " If you treated them better , they would n't be mutilating their hands and feet at the rate they are , to escape your clutches . " |
| 16 | I would n't have been bothered about any other cos you see it better on the , on the screen . |
| 17 | on , I thought it was this week but it is n't it 's the seventeenth , so I rang Steve and he said I better . |
| 18 | There 's no reason why you should n't use individual heating appliances if it suits you better , especially if you live in a flat , or if there is no one at home in the day . |
| 19 | Sex is better with Jon cos he does it better . |
| 20 | ‘ But I know you better than he does ! |
| 21 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
| 22 | Hugh Jones , though , is pure ‘ old school ’ , and he had the patience and faith to produce the band au naturel ( ‘ It 's actually got less guitars on it , but we recorded them better . |
| 23 | He had 17 management jobs in total including Scotland , Chelsea , Manchester United , FC Porto and Queens Park Rangers , and he will be immortalised by his own self-deprecating one-liner , ‘ I 've had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus , but he used them better . ‘ |
| 24 | I ca n't cook or clean because you all do that , I do n't even sew very well because you do it better , I ca n't play or draw , not really — ’ |
| 25 | So perhaps I felt I must tell you all this , now , before I know you better , so that I can tell it you without too much confusion . |
| 26 | When you know them better , by all means invite them to a party meeting but do n't let your attitude to them be dependent on their political philosophy . |
| 27 | Maybe you 'll change your mind when you know me better . " |