Example sentences of "got better " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have got better . |
| 2 | You 'd have got better anyway , I told him . |
| 3 | ‘ It was like having a severe bout of food poisoning that never got better , ’ she recalled . |
| 4 | For one thing they 've got better things to do with their time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got better things to do . ’ |
| 6 | I 've got better things to do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Their talent has matured and , although I still love the early stuff , everything since has got better and better . |
| 8 | ‘ I have got better at using less pretentious imagery . |
| 9 | And has it got better or worse ? |
| 10 | Indeed , it 's actually got better . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , if I 'd got pregnant he might have thought it was his , that he 'd got better somehow . |
| 12 | If I fainted I 'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance and they 'd summon Mum and Dad and as soon as I 'd got better they 'd start about Exams and Re-sits and Careers . |
| 13 | But Abbott maintains : ‘ As an agency we have got better at TV . |
| 14 | Since then , things have got better and better — the amount of demos has risen and the quality increased enormously . |
| 15 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 16 | Hide added : ‘ I 'm fit , I 'm fast and I hit hard , ’ before heading towards stratospheric levels of self-delusion by saying : ‘ I 'm better than Evander Holyfield , I 've got better footwork and speed and I do n't get hit like him . ’ |
| 17 | The ploy did not stop a lot of people muttering about the flaws in his catwalk show ( rather unfairly ) , although the Destroy line certainly got better once again by opting for the tight ‘ Partridge Family ’ look and foxy jersey dresses with denim trims . |
| 18 | Mummy had not got better quickly . |
| 19 | After all , you 've probably got better things to do . |
| 20 | I think it 's actually got better . |
| 21 | Yet for a time she had even got better , but then suddenly today — ‘ or yesterday now ’ he thought , looking at the luminous dials of the old clock he kept by his bed — she had got worse again . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got better things to worry about , ’ said my mother , not letting us forget for a moment her onerous wedding duties . |
| 23 | I can see to all the nitty-gritty for you — I know you 're not a family for bothering your heads with that sort of thing , you 've got better things to do . |
| 24 | And it 's always a good idea to let them think you 've got better enchantments in your armoury than you actually have , if you take my meaning , even if you have n't got any enchantments at all . |
| 25 | Those who suffer from PMS less frequently reported that it has got better with time . |
| 26 | Maybe it would have got better without treatment — it happened sometimes ; it was difficult to be sure . |
| 27 | " And now I suppose it 'll be my fault the heating has n't got better immediately , " he muttered to himself as he walked along the narrow passageway . |
| 28 | I 've got better odds than I 'd get at Russian roulette — twenty to one , at least . |
| 29 | When Twoflower said they 'd got better kind of magic in the Empire I thought — I thought … ’ |
| 30 | got better they sent me back . |