Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] know better " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said in a letter to shareholders : ‘ I believe that I know better than anyone what makes Amstrad operate and what needs to be done in order to secure its future . |
| 2 | And this is really important — you should never , ever assume that you know better than they , what they want — and never let anyone else persuade you that they know better than you , what you want . |
| 3 | For once we feel that we know better than Mozart . |
| 4 | The books are confident that we know better |
| 5 | And this is really important — you should never , ever assume that you know better than they , what they want — and never let anyone else persuade you that they know better than you , what you want . |
| 6 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 7 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 8 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 9 | and we know better than to surrender . |
| 10 | He never gave an explanation and they knew better than to ask , but they guessed it would be a problem connected with his increasing consumption of drink . |
| 11 | Graham was only a little impatient , and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up . |
| 12 | More than five years of rebellions and civil war had honed his instincts to a fine edge , and he knew better than to ignore them . |
| 13 | Harry folded his arms , smiled as if he knew better and strolled about the room . |
| 14 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 15 | She makes my tea with the same water she boils the eggs , she says she do n't but I know better and you know what that does . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh you say that but I know better . |
| 17 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 18 | But you know better than that , do n't you , Liu Chang ? |
| 19 | Unless you know better , that is ! |
| 20 | She wondered what he meant by that last remark about his brother , so quickly bitten off , but she knew better than to ask . |
| 21 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 22 | It would be so easy to believe , but she knew better . |
| 23 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 24 | People say I 'm so ‘ lucky ’ as their things are confiscated — but we know better ! |
| 25 | But we know better , eh , Yuan ? |
| 26 | Denis made threatening noises , but they knew better than to take him seriously . |
| 27 | GEORGE III is reputed to have said that lawyers do not know much more law than other people , but they know better where to find it . |
| 28 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 29 | Come out wherever you are and let's get it over with " , but he knew better than that . |
| 30 | What is rarely stated openly but constantly implied is that the younger generation should be less negative because they know better ; they are university educated men . |