Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 2 | I knew far better than to turn my head , but I had the feeling my old builder stayed squatting by the roadside . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
| 4 | The last two examples , I 'm actually going to ask you to do tonight rather than keep you here this evening . |
| 5 | And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions . |
| 6 | ‘ I am determined that we build solidly rather than build fast . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes , though , we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up . |
| 9 | This suggested a hung parliament with Neil Kinnock leading a minority government , and Tory campaigners are furious that the BBC did not mention the party 's share of the vote , which would have shown it performing much better than predicted . |
| 10 | She turned her head , staring at him , noting how he looked down rather than meet her eyes , and knew at once that he was lying to her . |
| 11 | It took much longer than expected for the population to be reduced by deaths , occasional discharges and transfers to new units . |
| 12 | Built from the debris of planets , moons and comets , the sphere had originally been designed to completely enclose its star , collecting all the energy it gave out rather than letting the vast majority of it escape away into space . |
| 13 | We have to view a stimulus for a finite time before it generates a perception , but that perception appears to us to occur instantaneously rather than fading into view like the Cheshire cat . ) |