Example sentences of "well [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 2 | Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister . |
| 3 | did better than they thought they would |
| 4 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 5 | Although I 've no doubt you know better than we do what the opposition are |
| 6 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 7 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 8 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 9 | Better than I thought it would be . |
| 10 | You are a young gentleman and I am sorry to say , not better than I wish you to be . |
| 11 | ‘ So you understand me better than I understand myself . |
| 12 | It knew better than I did what to do . |
| 13 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 15 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 16 | They would have understood his feelings , better than he did himself . |
| 17 | ‘ In five days , ’ said Harvey when we were outside the cubicle , ‘ we can indoctrinate a man so that he really believes his cover story better than he believes his own memory . |
| 18 | " He will know your body better than you know it yourself , Menina . " |
| 19 | ‘ You will forgive me if I insist that I understand Mrs Frere better than you do yourself . |
| 20 | Faldo will never achieve the heights of Nicklaus ( will anyone ? ) , and he will probably never the win the affection of the golfing public , but he deserved better than you gave him . |
| 21 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 22 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 23 | We can plan our staff and equipment better if we know your sailing or windsurf experience beforehand : we do n't ask experienced sailors to teach ( unless that 's what you want to do ! ) |
| 24 | ‘ Be a damn sight better if you dropped your drawers and got it over with ! ’ |
| 25 | It is , therefore , better if you prepare your own lunches initially , rather than rely on canteens . |
| 26 | You 'd better if you know what 's good for you ! |
| 27 | Some tinies will find the pace busy , and will enjoy their evenings better if you pick them up early one or two days a week . |
| 28 | There is a marked reluctance to arguing why people should be accorded such rights — " It just is so and things work better if you accept it — racism for example causes instability and prejudice and violence , so it must go " . |
| 29 | I think it better if you leave us now . ’ |
| 30 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |