Example sentences of "do than [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is no greater achievement in geographical Research remaining to be done than to lift the veil from before this unpenetrable and mysterious Continent . |
| 2 | Between elections the paramount need for any Home Secretary is to maintain the support of his own party members , a task made harder in each of the major parties by the fact that local party workers often hold more extreme views on what should be done than do Ministers . |
| 3 | What more can I do than apologize ? |
| 4 | I 'd rather do than sitting here . |
| 5 | ‘ You think people have nothing better to do than listen to you . ’ |
| 6 | We have better things to do than kill each other . ’ |
| 7 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 8 | ‘ The butcher has better things to do than make journey upon journey , until we are ready for him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Surely people have better things to do than make a great song and dance about missing a dinner party . ’ |
| 10 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 11 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've more to do than sit about . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You appear to be familiar with two groups of the old : the wingeing paranoid dimwits who can think of nothing better to do than queue unnecessarily , and the depraved and corrupt denizens of ffeatherstonehaugh 's . |
| 14 | The recommended muster-signal was a wooden rattle operated by some deserving unemployed person with nothing better to do than run around the town making an incredible racket , as opposed to marching on mansions with a view to burning them down . |
| 15 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 16 | I kept one eagle eye out for wardens and policemen with nothing better to do than harass taxi-drivers , but I did n't have to wait long . |
| 17 | And if you 've better things to do than clean the oven make sure you choose the optional Valorclean liners . |
| 18 | He had better things to do than argue the toss . |
| 19 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 20 | Old people are , of course , entitled to the same social courtesies as we are , and it can be very irritating for them if they are made to feel that they are regarded as has-beens who have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting to be visited at our convenience . |
| 21 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 22 | Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Harbinger 's got better things to do than help an old cripple around . |
| 24 | Come , Sylvia , we 've better things to do than go chasing after that silly rabble . |
| 25 | They have nothing better to do than go down and make a nuisance of themselves to people who are peacefully going about their own affairs . |
| 26 | ‘ I have not enjoyed campaigning , I have far more enjoyable things to do than try and save my livelihood and my home . |
| 27 | He 's got nothing better to do than keep nagging on about our new garden fence . |
| 28 | ‘ If you have nothing better to do than prop up buildings , will you kindly go and find yourself a street corner and not clutter up my department ! |
| 29 | To be alone , to have nothing to think about except oneself … to have nothing more to do than to die without a supreme approbation ! |
| 30 | She was at first incensed at the idea — as if she had no more to do than pack up guns , as if it were an easy matter to send such an object at all , as if she existed only for his convenience — and then amused . |