Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 2 | Unemployment locks the underclass into place in three ways : it is more likely to hit those who are poor ; the poorest are likely to be unemployed longest ; and , in addition , instead of compensating the unemployed , the welfare state penalizes them more than any other group on welfare . |
| 3 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 4 | He needs me more than I need him . |
| 5 | ‘ He needs me more than you do , ’ she said , as if that was an explanation . |
| 6 | ‘ For the moment she needs me more than you do , ’ he said at last . |
| 7 | Similar sequences , known as self-initiated insertion sequences , are common in the talk of monolinguals : " self-initiated " because the current speaker starts them rather than being prompted by another , and " insertion sequences " because they disrupt the " normal " flow of the conversation . |
| 8 | Nothing makes me more downcast than the ‘ uplifting ’ , nothing elevates me more than the de-jected . |
| 9 | ‘ That performance against Palace worries me more than anything I have seen so far this season . |
| 10 | I think the thing that worries me more than anything else about them , that a lot of 'em have aspirations erm greater than their finances . |
| 11 | She needs you more than I do . ’ |
| 12 | And like , she has , like , although she 's doing secondary teaching , she has it easier than anybody . |
| 13 | one person needs it more than another . |
| 14 | It 's a difficult situation but the fact is Mr Cox owes us more than £12,000 . ’ |
| 15 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 16 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 17 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 18 | Is there any kind of conflict which upsets you more than others ? |
| 19 | He who fondles you more than usual has either deceived you or wants to do so ( French proverb ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Age concerns me less than efficiency . |
| 21 | You will have more freedom to explore what interests you rather than being directed in your study by adherence to arbitrary book lists which encourage regurgitation of facts and diagrams without any analysis of the content . |
| 22 | But it costs you more than that , that 's right |
| 23 | ‘ We have been trying to raise the profile of the SGU and nothing , as far as I am concerned , raises it more than the Scottish Club Championship , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It takes him less than 30 seconds to assemble an asbestos mat , a bunsen burner , a wire mat on the top of a tripod and a beaker full of water Full of bright blue supersaturated copper-sulphate solution . |
| 25 | It takes him less than five seconds to reach me . |
| 26 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
| 27 | She precedes him rather than staying behind as befits a consort . |
| 28 | yeah I mean , and the trouble is what n annoys me more than anything is the fact that he 's good worker I me even when he 's drunk , alright he do n't work at full capacity but he does sort of almost as much as what they do and when he 's |
| 29 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 30 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |