Example sentences of "[subord] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brochure can do more than introduce you to a few of the services that our personal customers find most useful . |
| 2 | For MCI , the new venture will do more than transform it into an international presence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Dorrell continued : ’ In the past the Inland Revenue has , I am told , felt able to accept that the allowances paid to volunteers did no more than reimburse them for their actual expenses . |
| 5 | Better bury gold in the embankments , than put it in ornaments on the stations . |
| 6 | It already makes black and white displays in the US , but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing , and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan , where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties . |
| 7 | The hole may twist and turn and the ferret will do no more than tie itself to the root while simply passing along the burrow . |
| 8 | hailing from bonny Glasgow but destined for world domination , One Dove are one of the more permanent fixtures of a transient club scene and , despite the innocuous chemical reference , they 'd rather whisper sweet nothings in your ear than whip you into a frenzy of fancy footwork . |
| 9 | This is traditional children 's Christmas holiday fare and those of you with sprogs still naive enough to appreciate it could do worse than plonk them in front of this when they start the equally traditional post-present grizzling . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 11 | My father may leave everything to me , but I frankly would n't know what to do with it other than give it to Jamie . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Far better to let them grow up safe than expose them by making himself conspicuous . |
| 14 | The journey is a slow one for the tiny fish do little more than allow themselves to be carried by the river current . |
| 15 | One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) . |
| 16 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 17 | ‘ A very big ‘ oh ’ , ’ Ven murmured , and , seeming to take it favourably that she was not snatching her hands out of his clasp , ‘ What is happening to me , can I think , when I , who value my privacy and do not need an intrusive journalist in my home , find that I have done no less than invite you to my home for dinner ? ’ |
| 18 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 19 | It would seem likely that more people get themselves killed out of pride than sacrifice themselves for any moral end . |
| 20 | ‘ I guess some of us ‘ types ’ have better things to do with our lives than dedicate ourselves to the attraction of the opposite sex . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I would rather lose my self than share it with Syl . |
| 24 | When have I done anything less than love you with a passion that you chose to throw back in my face , not once but twice ? |
| 25 | But there was nothing she could do , except love them from a distance . |
| 26 | Rather than do anything about it , the Council pay the farmers a subsidy to filter the water . |
| 27 | So how do you just I mean rather than do it in your head , especially in an exam , just what you 're going to do , put the Add X to both sides say . |
| 28 | I 'd quicker burn than mention it to Miss Lavant . |
| 29 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 30 | Most mothers , if forced to leave home for a few days , would entrust their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father . |