Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would even dry quicker than if you put them over the clothes horse cos that 's what those slats are for . |
| 2 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 3 | And he said well he should know better than to blah blah blah |
| 4 | You ca n't stink worse than you do already . |
| 5 | — I can jump higher than the Empire State Building . |
| 6 | I du n no because the school I think ends early I do n't know earlier than sort of I think sort of like June or something , but I mean I do n't know . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't make me feel sillier than I already do . ’ |
| 8 | Although excess fluid will not harm you , it will make you feel bigger than you really are . |
| 9 | Similarly , in her study of variation between the conditional , imperfect subjunctive , present indicative and future indicative in the verbs of si clauses in Buenos Aires Spanish , Lavandera developed a set of interview questions ( for example , ‘ Under what conditions would you feel happier than you presently are ? ’ ) which succeeded in eliciting a high proportion of clauses expressing unreal conditions ( Lavandera 1975 ; 1978a ; 1982 ) . |
| 10 | There was no getting away from the fact that sometimes being with Miguel made Shelley feel happier than she had ever been in her life . |
| 11 | ‘ We may feel younger than we do now , ’ said Gay seriously . |
| 12 | And never does this feel better than when he chooses a new car in the showroom . |
| 13 | Our new plan will mean you will feel better than you have in years — and help you lose weight |
| 14 | ( How can you feel better than terrific ? ) |
| 15 | Hiking is popular , but do n't forget your sun-tan — cooling off your nose with icy mountain stream water might feel better than factor 6 , but it wo n't stop you burning ! |
| 16 | I know it sounds stupid , but it , like , made me feel better than if I just smoked a joint with it . |
| 17 | They made me feel older than they were . |
| 18 | Despite the high trim-quality of each of these coupes , the sombre colours and black facia panels of their interiors make the cabins appear smaller than they actually are . |
| 19 | Why he did not feel angrier than he did he could not understand . |
| 20 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 21 | She 's made me angry with her anger , and then turned it around so that I 'm eaten up with guilt because she 's been ill and I have n't noticed , and now she 's taking the blame on herself and making me feel worse than ever . |
| 22 | But it has to be something good , or it will just fizzle out like a damp squib and you 'll feel worse than ever . ’ |
| 23 | It looks therapeutic in movies but it made me feel worse than ever . |
| 24 | Neutral and prosperous neighbours could make Russia feel safer than its current buffer of allied but unhappy comrades . |
| 25 | One such is Marilyn Lawrence 's The Anorexic Experience ( The Women 's Press , 1984 ) , which I found did talk about my experiences without making me feel weirder than ever , or a mere statistic . |
| 26 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |
| 27 | Actions can speak louder than words |
| 28 | That 's why actions generally , although by no means always , do speak louder than words : because , paradoxically , they are n't meant to ‘ speak ’ at all , and a fortiori are n't meant to speak what 's false . |
| 29 | Do not actions speak louder than words ? |
| 30 | ‘ Your disappearance , my dear , ’ he said with a slight bow , ‘ would speak louder than words . ’ |