Example sentences of "[pron] good than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah but its better than going off skiing all the while and taking your spotty chicken pox children with you |
| 2 | ‘ He was a student at the university : they were to be married until she decided a career on the stage suited her better than becoming the wife of a Hapsburg cavalry officer . |
| 3 | ‘ I like nothing better than getting out on foot on my shift , ’ he said . |
| 4 | There was sex , of course , but although both of them were extremely interested in sex , and enjoyed nothing better than discussing it , neither of them , if the truth be told , was quite so interested in actually having it , or at any rate in having it very frequently . |
| 5 | After a hard day at the office — in Joey Dunlop 's case the Carrowdore 100 — our world motorcycle ace likes nothing better than unwinding with a cup of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 6 | Bremner loved nothing better than to kick hell out of the opposition . |
| 7 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 8 | Molly Piggott , later Ben Curdle 's wife , was general help in the Youngs ' house , and Paul liked nothing better than to watch her cook . |
| 9 | But he was , nevertheless , a witty and civilised man and was always welcomed by the public relations people who like nothing better than to pour alcohol down the usually receptive throat of a member of the Press . |
| 10 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 11 | ‘ Adolph , I would like nothing better than to give you the chance to start your life again , but Colonel Goreng … he 's the cautious one . |
| 12 | I 'd like nothing better than to spend the night with you . ’ |
| 13 | As the leading opponent of orthodoxy within the RCM , Elaine Blond enjoyed nothing better than proving that her critics were less than perfect . |
| 14 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 16 | When Rune had finished with her , Suzie would want nothing better than to return hotfoot to receive Margaret 's tearful forgiveness ! |
| 17 | There were those among the remaining husbands of the five daughters of Ealdred who would like nothing better than to see Siward perish in an effort to plant a few Anglian soldiers and a bishop in some crumbling old forts in the Lothians . |
| 18 | It has not stopped businessmen being asked what they think will happen to the economy if the government changes , however , even if those businessman can do nothing better than guess or regurgitate or express hopes and fears . |
| 19 | The son of APHRODITE and ARES , this mischievous god was married to the beautiful mortal maid psyche , and liked nothing better than to meddle in human affairs . |
| 20 | ‘ There is nothing better than to beat someone playing well , ’ she says . |
| 21 | THE FORMER colleagues of Paul Gascoigne at Spurs would like nothing better than to spoil his comeback tonight . |
| 22 | Rowland moves outside the establishment — in fact , he likes nothing better than upsetting it . |
| 23 | In the midst of this terrible recession this government can think of nothing better than scrapping Wages Councils and introducing more union curbs . |
| 24 | Members of congress are , in any event , likely to be in awe of the president ; a direct telephone call from him will carry special weight as Tip O'Neill reports : ‘ The men and women in Congress love nothing better than to hear from the head guy . |
| 25 | The Amateur Championship begins there on Tuesday , and McEvoy would like nothing better than to emulate Mike Bonallack and Joe Carr as the only golfers since the War to win the title three times . |
| 26 | Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away . |
| 27 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | He suspected she could have wished for nothing better than to have him confined to bed and reliant on her care . |
| 30 | 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 . |