Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
| 2 | It did nothing to provide better child care for women wishing to return to work . |
| 3 | Hopefully I have improved in that regard and perhaps also I make better assessment of what is on . |
| 4 | he reckons I make better pastry than what I . |
| 5 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 6 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 7 | When I was 16 I gained GSE grade one English and chose not to accept the only job suggested , packing boxes ; instead I tried further education . |
| 8 | What I wanted to add was : ‘ I brave worse weather than this every day back home . |
| 9 | I want greater investment and efficiency and to see prices stabilised in a tougher , more competitive electricity industry . |
| 10 | No , I want heavier string than that . |
| 11 | I deserved better treatment than that . |
| 12 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 13 | The Committee has asked that I seek further information on the way in which the Society is developing its campaign and the nature of the second report . |
| 14 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 15 | I like plainer food and less rich sauces . |
| 16 | I said my mate works and I get better service up there . |
| 17 | But as I get older patience , a commodity not particularly noticeable in the past , has gradually appeared in my personality , like a sandbank silted into place by too many frothing tides . |
| 18 | Ask the advice of the Occupational Therapist ; Social Services will also arrange for someone to give further advice . |
| 19 | Near Afdam I hunted greater kudu in the broken bush-covered country round Afdub , a volcanic mountain rising to seven thousand feet . |
| 20 | If I discuss safer sex my partner will leave me for someone else |
| 21 | If I discuss safer sex my partner will leave me for someone else |
| 22 | I chose higher education . |
| 23 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 24 | Because if I escape I shall be a completely different and I think better person . |
| 25 | er I think further notice and having having a look at the figures . |
| 26 | Would I get better fuel consumption by replacing this with a four speed auto box and if so how can this be done ? |
| 27 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 28 | Okay the so as I said earlier opening K channels will hyperpolarize the membrane . |
| 29 | No I I prefer longer hair for women |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no one in this world in whom I have greater trust . |