Example sentences of "better [verb] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is better to journey than to arrive : the masterpiece versus fake debate continues over the Getty Kouros |
| 2 | Gently — and a little inexpertly — he gave her his first love in return , and that joining of soul to soul and body to body convinced her that in love it is indeed better to give than to receive . |
| 3 | The Christians soon acquired a reputation even among the pagans for being generous with their money ; they thought it better to give than to enquire too closely into the merits of the recipients , and were therefore occasionally easy game for confidence tricksters . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 5 | As we negotiated the slippery rungs of that staircase , there were always a few interested bystanders with nothing better to do than shout encouraging remarks from time to time , but we soon learnt to ignore them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | He 's got nothing better to do than keep nagging on about our new garden fence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You think people have nothing better to do than listen to you . ’ |
| 15 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 16 | ‘ We all of us have something better to do than concern ourselves with the tantrums of servants ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Just some stupid , bad tempered old woman with nothing better to do than poke her nose in where she 's no business . ’ |
| 18 | A social dilettante with a hang-up about someone called Lotta , and who had nothing better to do than sleep the daylight hours away , she concluded , despising both the man and his attitude ! |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you have anything better to do than waste your time where you 're not wanted ? |
| 20 | I am surprised you have nothing better to do than stand in corridors all day . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , it 's certainly better to row than to use sarcasm , or to deny your feelings verbally , but express them in your body language . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh Gabriel , ’ he said wildly , ‘ I 'm weak and foolish , and I feel it 's better to die than to live ! ’ |
| 23 | He could be Proustian : ‘ It is better to desire than to enjoy — to love than be loved . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But if ye do not have self-control , let ye marry , for it is better to marry than to burn . ’ ’ |
| 25 | The holiest state was celibacy ; but it was better to marry than to burn . |
| 26 | The third rule is that in general it is better to tax than to borrow . |
| 27 | David did not know quite where to look , but it was one occasion , he subsequently recounted to his friends , when it was better to travel than to arrive . |