Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 2 | Then either let your hair dry naturally or use a diffuser . |
| 3 | Do n't over-dry your hair — whenever possible , let it dry naturally or use a diffuser . |
| 4 | Any females which are not ripe will either stay away or beat a hasty retreat . |
| 5 | Before she could ask whom he intended to marry this time he said , ‘ After you left and I had that final bust-up with Marc I rang Marianne and told her she could do better than marry a penniless school-kid . ’ |
| 6 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 7 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 8 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 9 | We arranged that if we were attacked we would break away and form a defensive circle . ’ |
| 10 | But rather to join in the search for new ways forward for the common future of our society and I suggest you might do worse than try a few committees and working groups on pragmatic coalitions , collaborative democracy and local community . |
| 11 | You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists ' book . |
| 12 | Those looking for a rank outsider at rewarding odds may do worse than invest a little each-way on New Halen , who was still in contention when unseating his rider a mile from home last year . |
| 13 | The Unix community , many of whom own a piece of USL , could do worse than promote a of church/state relationship between USL ( as Unix mentor ) and the practitioners of statecraft ( Unix providers ) who are also believers . |
| 14 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 15 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 16 | Okay shall we s stop there and have a ? |
| 17 | and really got the momentum going and that it was the middle peasants that he needed to get the support so that they can move forward and have a revolution . |
| 18 | Wiser heads , impressed by the scale and intensity of working-class militancy in a single region and recognizing that an ill-timed coup might merely provoke rather than prevent a nationwide revolution of the left , placed their faith in subtler tactics . |
| 19 | The partnership would capitalise Newco sufficiently to meet the redemption obligations on the debentures and , if Newco became the beneficial owner of more than 25% of the ordinary share capital of Target , prima facie s135 TCGA 1992 would apply so as to preclude a disposal on the exchange of Target shares for Newco debentures , though it would be advisable to obtain from the Inland Revenue advance clearance for this sort of structure under s138 . |
| 20 | Weaving does take longer than knitting a piece of the same size , but it takes very little longer to weave a long row than a short one , so this can save a considerable amount of time . |
| 21 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 22 | I 'll stay here an' settle a few old scores with our precious Mayor an' all ! ’ |
| 23 | I 'll stay here and get a job in a café at one pound fifty an hour . |
| 24 | I wished they would go somewhere and fight a duel to the death , and that it would end in a draw . |
| 25 | Would they accept what he had said and let them go rather than cause a scene ? |
| 26 | In the longer term they should go so as to create a real ‘ Europe without frontiers ’ . |
| 27 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 28 | come on let's go outside and have a run about |
| 29 | I fully accept that if I want to know everything a top luthier knows then I should go away and make a serious study of the subject , but I would be quite happy to read a dedicated magazine each month from which I can learn about what 's new , who 's up to what , what new guitars are like to play etc. etc. and also the meaning of the industry 's technical terminology . |
| 30 | Yes I think a team that can go away and sneak a win will be the team that gets through in the end . |