Example sentences of "better than [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody 's better than than yeah , are we I mean you know you 've seen you 've seen twelve presentations well you 've seen eleven presentations plus you 've done your own now there is that fear is n't there . |
| 2 | I was saying to Trevor it 's it 's not very nice but it 's rather so much better than than than having a cot death is n't it ? |
| 3 | A lot better than than on your own . |
| 4 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 5 | " It 's better than where I was , " she said quietly . |
| 6 | And never does this feel better than when he chooses a new car in the showroom . |
| 7 | Ten months later , however , the house looks better than when the crew arrived . |
| 8 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |
| 9 | It 's better than when Uncle Lionel comes here . |
| 10 | Garrison Savannah is bidding to go one better than when runner-up to Seagram two years ago . |
| 11 | It was better than when Andrew took his then girlfriend , now his wife , to the cinema with them . |
| 12 | Some said the facilities were no better than when it was just the plain Milton Keynes Bowl , for many it was still worth the travel , the wait , the time to see Bruce . |
| 13 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 14 | Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last . |
| 15 | Well , it 's a lot better than when you saw me last time ! |
| 16 | There is some convincing research that they are often no better than if the manager had simply stuck a pin in at random amongst the names of candidates . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's illogical , but it works better than if you had an elected house . ’ |
| 18 | I know it sounds stupid , but it , like , made me feel better than if I just smoked a joint with it . |
| 19 | If he can , then the transfer is void , no better than if Mrs. Steed 's signature had been forged . |
| 20 | And I think it sort of sort of ripened the fruit better than if it was in a cool shop . |
| 21 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 22 | I just think it 's wrong because every day a tiny bit the ground loo looks much much better than if I do n't give them for weeks an they do , well . |
| 23 | Better than if you shout . |
| 24 | Better than if you shout . |
| 25 | ’ There 's nothing better than seeing you local teams . |