Example sentences of "with [pron] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you come across Amy , I think it would be best if you put her in touch with me rather than trying anything on your own . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Hutton often calls her in for dictation and then she gets behind with her work for Malcolm , but he gets annoyed with me rather than her . |
| 3 | ( 94 ) … " suffering as usual " , but hoped , he told Arthur , " to find this place agree with me better than Naples " . |
| 4 | Some planners , for example , saw that their economic planning might be more effective if they used the price mechanism to work with them rather than against them , and Philip Chantler , the economic adviser brought into the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1947 , consistently advocated a move to higher prices . |
| 5 | Occasionally some of the other ranks could be seen driving old Chevvies ( they brought their own cars with them rather than risk going to local garages ) with number plates proclaiming their owners to be from the Potato or Sunshine States or , ironically , from the Land of the Free . |
| 6 | German supermarkets have resisted the idea of the PVC eating robot , as they would much rather customers took discarded packaging home with them rather than have their premises swarming with robots . |
| 7 | In fact Tod tends to be more upbeat with them here than he is at home ( at home , in slippers and dressing-gown , longsufferingly shuffling ) . |
| 8 | They also tended to know their middle-class patients better and communicated with them better than with their working-class patients . |
| 9 | In earlier periods , ‘ foreign devils ’ brought with them more than just strange clothes and hairstyles but social and political doctrines as well . |
| 10 | There are so many people who one 's tremendously fond of , yet one or two settle with you more than others . |
| 11 | ‘ He married Diana and he should have made much more of an effort with her rather than turning to another woman for support , ’ she said . |
| 12 | We had a nursery and a nanny , and until we were thirteen ate with her rather than with our parents . |
| 13 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 14 | The young couple were with her less than forty-eight hours , explaining they had promised to spend another thirty-six on the way back with John 's parents , who lived in Cheltenham . |
| 15 | However , his departure was more like triumph since he took with him some 2000 men who preferred to go into exile with him rather than remain in Alfonso 's service . |
| 16 | Indeed , in the final I had the strange sensation of feeling privileged to be running with him rather than determined to try to beat him . |
| 17 | cinema , to visualize that she was dancing with him rather than Whoopie Goldberg . |
| 18 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 19 | These motives can be exploited to good effect by skilful MPs who understand the system and work with it rather than try to change it . |
| 20 | If a bank has a surplus of cash , why might it choose to make a market loan with it rather than giving extra personal loans or mortgages to its customers ? |
| 21 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 22 | Yeah I know it 's well again , you know , kind of once you can see , once you can see what 's wrong with it rather than just sort of , you know , screwing it up and throwing it away , you know kind of if you can use that as a basis for , for , you know , kind of putting more of the stuff in that makes it look a bit more academic |
| 23 | I would n't underestimate the problems of famine , but this is largely a question of mild distribution , and I think we 're learning to cope with it better than fifty years ago . |
| 24 | Attracted by the lion 's share of a $10m industrial assistance fund , a bit of McDonnell Douglas has already arrived , bringing with it more than 1,000 jobs . |
| 25 | The treaty on foreign policy carries with it more than a commitment to co-ordinate our policies . |
| 26 | Nor did they have sufficient ‘ team spirit ’ , being overly individualistic and concerned with themselves rather than the collective good . |
| 27 | Be very careful with your less than or equal , greater than and equal . |
| 28 | They ran when we came , and the Friar shared his food with us rather than with them . ’ |