Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] else [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 2 | At three months it is the weakest of the womb , that is li that is for everyone , if anybody 's got a weak inside well they 's lose it , they 's be liable to lose it more than anybody else with out taking anything . |
| 3 | Langhorne was an impossible , fiercely dangerous dirt track , practically round , full of ruts ; hot and unprotected , but Mario — as he often liked to point out — had n't been born with a silver spoon in his mouth ; he could n't afford the fare to Europe ; meanwhile , while dreaming of his grand prix heroes , he 'd just have to be better than anybody else at what was available . |
| 4 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 5 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 6 | If I live to be 110 , I shall doubtless feel no more alien than anybody else in the prevailing subtopia because nobody will be working out-of-doors . |
| 7 | You see the customer more often than anybody else in our Division . |
| 8 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 9 | experience of , of this than anybody else around this table . |
| 10 | ‘ There was such an incredible level of will involved , ’ reflects Rowland , ‘ and we just took it for granted that we were , like , better than everybody else by about 50 million miles . |
| 11 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 12 | Joshua ( naturally , that is not his real name ) has done more for road safety in the village than anyone else for many a long year . |
| 13 | We clung together for warmth and vowed to love one another more than anyone else for all time . |
| 14 | When he reached 120 matches in January , Gray had played more first-class games for Wellington than anyone else for a NZ province , in a career which began in 1975–76 . |
| 15 | It seems to have hit us more than anyone else for some reason . |
| 16 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 17 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 18 | There is no substance in the assumption that because people are mentally handicapped they are less likely than anyone else to be happy . |
| 19 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 20 | Seb was somewhat less effusive in his acclaim , yet he was far more relieved than anyone else at Nahum 's success . |
| 21 | Gerry Healy made more ex-Trotskyists than anyone else except Stalin . |
| 22 | He had a degree in fine arts from the Sorbonne ; he had further training from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , and the Beaux Arts in Paris ; he knew more about the history of jewellery design in general , and of the de Chavigny company in particular , than anyone else except the man he was going to see now . |
| 23 | But there was one man to talk to in Israel who knew more than anyone else about the land of Palestine . |
| 24 | They are , most often , more frightened than anyone else about what is happening to them . |
| 25 | That did n't stop him roving , teasing , passing and crossing that bit better than anyone else on the field , a constant delight to the eye . |
| 26 | I am sure she has more cards than anyone else on her ward . |
| 27 | The line at the Channel 4 press office is that Paul Merton now gets more female fan mail than anyone else on the channel . |
| 28 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 29 | For he is convinced he knows his way around better than anyone else on earth . |
| 30 | Beck was 33rd in driving accuracy but 147th in hitting greens , a starting pair of numbers from a pro who is reputed to hit the irons more solidly than anyone else on Tour . |