Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 2 | To this Lord Reid said that to regulate a person 's existing trade may be a greater restraint than prohibiting him from engaging in a new trade . |
| 3 | Rather than accusing him of anachronism , academic critics tended to concentrate their fire on internal contradictions or flawed assumptions in his policy . |
| 4 | In any event the handing of the letters to the son could amount to no more than using him as a messenger . |
| 5 | This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence . |
| 6 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 7 | Edmund Langley , born in 1342 and created Earl of Cambridge in 1362 , was granted part of the Warenne inheritance to maintain his estate , but his marriage to Isabella , youngest daughter of Pedro I of Castile , was used to further Gaunt 's diplomatic schemes rather than to provide him with an adequate endowment . |
| 8 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 11 | Now he was peeved because his secretary , whom he had categorized as intelligent , sensible , dedicated , preferred to stay in Norfolk with her lover , a man he despised , rather than follow him to London . |
| 12 | Rather than follow him into this detail , it is more important here to underline an important general characteristic which Hobbes says the claim has . |
| 13 | He waited until the coastguard officer had got well ahead , than followed him along the path back the way they had come . |
| 14 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Morton , in the cold gleam of sober day , had tended to make light of Edward 's ‘ chatter with the fillies ’ , and appeared to have nothing concrete to offer although exhorting him to ‘ keep his eyes and ears open ’ , and harping on his private means . |
| 17 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | What better revenge than to disgrace him by rigging a scandal involving the dead man 's daughter , a married woman ? |
| 20 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 21 | She did not remember anyone inviting Tim , he had just tagged on to them , but she felt it was safer to take him than leave him near Durance in case he made any further blackmail attempts . |
| 22 | ‘ Take it from me , kid — ambushing 's a lot better than smacking him in the snout . |
| 23 | She had no idea of how she might use it : draining him of pity would be worse than draining him of money , and she would drown in guilt . |
| 24 | Better than shoving him in a creche in n it ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As with values , it is probably best to assess your opponent 's objectives rather than to ask him for them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |