Example sentences of "[pron] [adj -er] than have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Crossman tended to presume that all those he came across , at work or socially , liked nothing better than to have their intellectual sacred cows challenged , their arguments questioned and their assumptions subjected to loud investigation . ’ |
| 2 | He suspected she could have wished for nothing better than to have him confined to bed and reliant on her care . |
| 3 | There is nothing better than having praise from someone whose work you respect , nothing nicer than being able to pat an old friend on the back and say sincerely how much you like their work . |
| 4 | I mean , if you 've got your group on there 's nothing better than having your floor there and are dancing on the floor at , at , in front of the group kind of thing like |
| 5 | The realities of being in a situation where you ca n't choose your employment , which is an awful way to be when you do n't have any skills and you have to take whatever is dished out … there 's nothing worse than having to take what 's available . |
| 6 | The second act rather concentrates on Chaplin 's ‘ non American ’ activities ( nothing worse than having Socialist views and an interest in Russia ) but it was enough to drive him out of the country . |
| 7 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 8 | The timing of this rejection was unfortunate for Franco , for nothing would have suited him better than to have been able to announce Spanish membership of the international winners ' club on the morning of the ninth anniversary of the 18 July rising . |
| 9 | They showed that disputes between the males were some what commoner than had previously been reported . |