Example sentences of "[adj] than [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm carrying you because you need to get back into the warmth as fast as possible , and this is quicker than letting you walk by yourself . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And that would be quicker than starving them ? ’ |
| 3 | A project in which the children 's desire to acquire information will engender high motivation would seem a far more appropriate way of achieving this than putting them through special library lessons , divorced from any meaningful context . |
| 4 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 5 | And h let him realize that he 's remembering these , and it 's easier than looking it up every time . |
| 6 | This is easier than doing it with numbers , any day . |
| 7 | This is much easier than keeping them in piles in a cupboard or closet . |
| 8 | It seemed easier than confronting her in their bedroom . |
| 9 | This is what you can do : if he comes too close and narrows the gap , step to the side and extend it again ; a gentle touch to his arm is more emphatic than asking him to stop . |
| 10 | THERE is nothing more humiliating than loving him so much that you forgive the infidelities . |
| 11 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 12 | cost you far more getting it like that than saying we 'll support you |
| 13 | You , you know how I feel , I mean er Rob does a lot of good work but he keeps it all to himself and we 've got ta be bigger than keeping it to ourselves , it 's everybody 's responsibility vocational education from right down from year seven right the way across the board , they 've got ta |
| 14 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 15 | Which is probably better than getting them all at the same time . |
| 16 | There was sex , of course , but although both of them were extremely interested in sex , and enjoyed nothing better than discussing it , neither of them , if the truth be told , was quite so interested in actually having it , or at any rate in having it very frequently . |
| 17 | Better than shoving him in a creche in n it ? |
| 18 | Separating sheep from goats within a school was little better than separating them into different schools . |
| 19 | much better than backing it to win and it comes second . |
| 20 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |
| 21 | Better than rolling them out . |
| 22 | That 's better than letting it drag and drag ; you lose a lot of the vibe that way . |
| 23 | It was not ideal , it was not what he had anticipated , far from it , but it was better than abandoning it to Adam . |
| 24 | I 've er , I 've lost about a stone in a couple of months or so , that 's all , but it 's er better than gaining I suppose . |
| 25 | Well it 's better than making it all up . |
| 26 | Sorry we just thought it 's better than carrying her around . |
| 27 | Rowland moves outside the establishment — in fact , he likes nothing better than upsetting it . |
| 28 | ‘ Take it from me , kid — ambushing 's a lot better than smacking him in the snout . |
| 29 | Some manufacturers ( particularly of mass-produced goods ) do not take this point , and are happy to replace goods ( it is cheaper than repairing them ) until the buyer is satisfied . |
| 30 | and it 's cheaper than ordering it off the catalogue . |