Example sentences of "[pron] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These pieces represent English Romanticism at its peak and nobody did them better than Beecham . |
| 2 | Take our kids away from us because you reckon you know what 's good for them better than what we do ? |
| 3 | Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’ |
| 4 | While appreciating the extraordinary difficulties facing Mr Lamont , it must still be said that he could have handled them better than this . |
| 5 | They also tended to know their middle-class patients better and communicated with them better than with their working-class patients . |
| 6 | ‘ They have taken to all the noise and building work around them better than we hoped and we are looking forward to the arrival of six cow elephants and one bull in six weeks time . ’ |
| 7 | I like them better than the modern ones . |
| 8 | This practice is said to suit them better since it is probable that they will marry and leave off work and they hardly like to spend seven years out of their wage-earning life in being trained . " " |
| 9 | The only other dissenter is Mary Midgley who , with good sense , questions the pride of place given to an unambiguous vegetarianism ( 1983 : 25–7 ) : ‘ What the animals need most urgently is probably a campaign for treating them better before they are eaten ’ , and she augments this by advocating a gradual move towards the consumption of less meat ( 27 ) . |
| 10 | It was further recognised that project-related work in the library also brought benefits in terms of teacher/pupil interaction and support : you have the opportunity to get closer to them as well … to help them better because you can go round small groups and talk at length while others are getting on with something that you know they are interested in . |
| 11 | There are one or two things you have to do and you can always do them better if you can see what you 're doing . |
| 12 | ‘ You know me better than that Ma , ’ he laughed . |
| 13 | I wanted my friends to know me better than they had before . |
| 14 | ‘ Mikhail … we are still comparative strangers , but I would have hoped you already knew me better than that . |
| 15 | Looking at the ground , he said , ‘ You know me better than anyone , Giancarlo , but this you do not understand . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You should know me better than to have to ask that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The 1990 NSR250 suited me better than the ‘ 89 version , which used to suffer from bad front wheel slides . |
| 18 | You know me better than that , do n't you ? |
| 19 | Oh God , I hope my belly spoke for me better than my fucking brain , in other words . |
| 20 | ‘ He knows me better than that . ’ |
| 21 | And then , to Devlin : ‘ You know me better than that , Jimmy . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You know me better than that , ’ said Memet . |
| 23 | ‘ You should know me better than that . |
| 24 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So you understand me better than I understand myself . |
| 27 | I could see she was feeling she should n't have told me , but I knew she trusted me better than anyone else . |
| 28 | It prepared me better than anything I 'd read or seen for the crisp exterior and soft centre of the Big Apple . |
| 29 | I thought you at least knew me better than that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You know me better than that George , ’ Sprague reproved from the corner of his mouth . |