1.   Alison Leigh refuses to let circumstances get the better of her.

2.   And, although opportunism has often got the better of his instincts, he has tended towards social tolerance.

3.   As the royal party was brought round backstage, my thirst got the better of me.

4.   At the same time he said he had had to select his shots wisely to get the better of Chesnokov.

5.   Blaise Cendrars witnessed a fight in which she was getting the better of Modigliani.

6.   Bored in the isolation of his taxi, curiosity and perhaps hunger got the better of him.

7.   Curiosity got the better of me and I opened her diary.

8.   He started to say something, then thought better of it.

9.   However it was Neil Freeman who stole the show getting the better of all three Writtle players.