Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] anything [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Did , did , did your hours of work get shorter or anything like that ? |
2 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
3 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
4 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
5 | You can probably stay at places that are older than anything in Australia — older than Australia itself . |
6 | This beer is sour , thin , musty , weak and stale , And worse than anything except the ale . |