Example sentences of "better than a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 2 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |
| 4 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 5 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |