Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a better " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 2 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 4 | Not even for Christine , whom she 'd found distant and uninterested , as if in her mind she 'd created a better place and preferred to wander there . |
| 5 | If Sir Kenneth had done a better piece of work , and been disliked by the City simply for being too tough in representing the interests of investors , would that have been enough to keep his job ? |
| 6 | How many more of us would be fluent French speakers if our first French teachers had done a better job ? |
| 7 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
| 8 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 9 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 10 | Branson 's absence had made office life more predictable , less exciting , but Virgin had become a better record company . |
| 11 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 12 | Up to 50 per cent of people with heart disease or cancer could probably have prevented or delayed the onset of their illness if they had eaten a better diet or stopped smoking . |
| 13 | Britain 's National Audit Office last year concluded that book-building for BT-2 had yielded a better price than underwriting would have done . |
| 14 | The communiqué that was issued after the meeting noted that the talks had been ‘ frank and useful ’ and did not disguise the fact that there were still ‘ major differences ’ on a series of key issues ; but the two leaders had achieved a better understanding of their respective positions and had agreed on the importance of maintaining a ‘ constant dialogue ’ . |
| 15 | Jones , who started his professional career at Wimbledon before moving on to Leeds , Sheffield United and then Chelsea , said he had returned a better player . |