Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew better than to invite him back to Water Gypsy for a coffee . |
| 2 | Denis made threatening noises , but they knew better than to take him seriously . |
| 3 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 4 | I also knew better than to seek him out . |
| 5 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 6 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 7 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 8 | She felt rather than saw him gazing round , trying to work out what had happened . |
| 9 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 10 | Thus we have the permitting conditions : the lack of parental control which might have brought the youth into more conventional alignments rather than setting him free to explore the more extravagant possibilities of a sporting career . |
| 11 | Why , for instance , does Peggy not get satisfaction instead from trying to eradicate the difference between herself and Boris , e.g. by helping him reach the answer himself rather than telling him ? |
| 12 | ‘ I had fallen into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . ’ |
| 13 | I felt so sorry for the horse while he was cutting his teeth that I pussyfooted around , falling into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . |
| 14 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 15 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 16 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 18 | She felt rather than heard him say her name . |
| 19 | Johnson 's problem was the IAAF 's problem , and the bottom line was that when he was caught cheating in Seoul , the powers-that-be imposed the statutory punishment of two years rather than banning him for life . |
| 20 | Each speaker springs off from the one before rather than opposes him . |
| 21 | It was unknown for Tiller 's dancers to scarper and his replacements would be thoroughly rehearsed rather than discredit him . |
| 22 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 23 | As with values , it is probably best to assess your opponent 's objectives rather than to ask him for them . |
| 24 | Rather than accusing him of anachronism , academic critics tended to concentrate their fire on internal contradictions or flawed assumptions in his policy . |
| 25 | He began to notice that those juveniles who were on his line of flight deferred to him , preferring to back off rather than confront him . |
| 26 | Rather than wake him by pulling the clothes off him and having to face the likely consequences , Mrs Stych put her housecoat over her nightgown , got a spare blanket out of her old hope chest , and eased herself down beside the chrysalis which was her husband . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose we are right to send you and Jeremy out to get Tristram rather than leave him to take the full consequences ? ’ he said reflectively , as he loaded her and her possessions into his car and took the wheel . |
| 28 | Rather than leave him in pace , the minotaur , video monitors blinking in its belly , hydraulic arms swinging over the crowd , turns round for a second go … |
| 29 | She had felt she 'd die rather than give him the satisfaction , but now she 'd have to be clever , for by implication she had denigrated his power and his commitment to protect her . |
| 30 | In which case she might just as well be punctual for their mutually unwelcome assignation , rather than give him cause for further sarcasm at her expense ! |