Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 2 | What made them less than first-rate , yet also made them popular locally , was the touch of theatricality and exaggeration , the desire to impose , which was very foreign indeed to the character of Oswaldston as a town . |
| 3 | Or , more critical perhaps , why — if evidence reviewed earlier is to be believed — many creative individuals even seem to have enhanced resistance to the mental illnesses to which , according to the theory outlined , their dispositions should make them more than usually susceptible . |
| 4 | Hey , darlin' , do n't you fancy me more than that nigger ? |
| 5 | Bruce , therefore , became a kind of guerilla leader whose main means of harming the English was to harass them rather than seek a formal confrontation with them . |
| 6 | His self-pitying speech reveals his worthlessness : ( " I may say " " Alas , woe is me " " : I love you more than my life , you hate me more than a goat hates the knife . " ) |
| 7 | Both philology and Catholicism are here presented as ‘ languages ’ which Julia is unable to master because she wants to question them and change them rather than accept their inherent systematicity . |
| 8 | If we continue supplying the Reds , we will be helping them more than the Blues . |
| 9 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before . |
| 13 | Although they may be regarded as suitable accommodation by some people , especially retired couples able to afford good-quality mobile homes , relatively poor facilities and frequently isolated locations make them less than ideal for the majority of inhabitants . |
| 14 | But according to Aunt Mary , what upset me more than anything , including the Father Christmas thing , was the business with the rainbow . |
| 15 | She 's not too unpleasant , even if she does pretend to like me more than I know she really does . |
| 16 | I thought of asking that old fool , but I decided he 'd probably unsettle them more than calm them down . ’ |
| 17 | Erm if I want them quicker than that they cost more . |
| 18 | Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’ |
| 19 | He needs me more than I need him . |
| 20 | ‘ He needs me more than you do , ’ she said , as if that was an explanation . |
| 21 | ‘ For the moment she needs me more than you do , ’ he said at last . |
| 22 | ‘ You should know me better than to have to ask that . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You should know me better than that . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nothing makes me more downcast than the ‘ uplifting ’ , nothing elevates me more than the de-jected . |
| 26 | ‘ That performance against Palace worries me more than anything I have seen so far this season . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He came back a couple of weeks ago and this time approached me rather than Rex . |
| 29 | Employment aspirations also differentiated the school-leavers ; those who aspired to manual jobs were more likely to obtain them locally than were those who aspired to non-manual work , especially professional and managerial posts . |
| 30 | It cost me less than a tenner and for swingtipping and springtipping it was brilliant . |