Example sentences of "[subord] [vb base] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did no more than raise an eyebrow . |
| 2 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 3 | And I 'd rather you eat it than make a mess of it eh ? |
| 4 | Realising that it is far too late in her life to expect her to do more than make an effort to modify this trait in her character , you should see if you can direct it away from the home . |
| 5 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |
| 6 | If the minor parties hold the balance of power , somewhat more Liberal Democrat supporters would like to see them keep the Tories under Mr Major in power than want a minority government led by Mr Kinnock . |
| 7 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 8 | The results show that , generally it is easier for most pupils to draw a named shape than provide a name for a shape . |
| 9 | Nihilism , however patrician , and aestheticism , however gilded , jar today , so that rather than provide an essay on art for art 's sake , or a game on life succumbing to art , Prowse emphasises the morality tale , the Faustian parable , the meditation on degeneracy and corruption . |
| 10 | They worked hard for any money they got er but basically this was the idea that they could earn more money than say a joiner or a plumber or whatever , and therefore they had a wee bit of pride in themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ Except provide an ear . ’ |
| 12 | Rob teases her by saying that she 'd rather go round a supermarket than climb a mountain , but there 's ‘ many a true word … ’ and all that . |
| 13 | ‘ Cricket ’ , remarked Pelham Warner sternly , ‘ is not a circus , and it would be far better that it should be driven back to the village green … than yield a jot to the petulant demands of the spectator . ’ |
| 14 | It is obviously easier to make an appointment with an individual than organize a group , although once a format programme has been decided , handouts printed , and a venue organized , most of the other organizational tasks can be carried out by clerical and secretarial staff . |
| 15 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 'll tell you this , I 'd rather go 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis than face a 25-yarder from our full-back Clive Freeman ! |
| 17 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 18 | You may also find icons which do no more than invoke an error message because the associated program or file has been erased from the harddisk . |
| 19 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 20 | And a Manchester mother vowed she would rather go to prison for life than pay a £4,000 bill run up by her son . |
| 21 | I bet you 've done a lot worse than chuck a Perk in a canal . ’ |
| 22 | The man did nothing , after all , except shoot a line to you , and if it 's a crime to wander round an empty house on a wild night , trying the windows , well … ’ |
| 23 | Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running ? |
| 24 | I would rather do a cross-word puzzle than try a revenue appeal . ’ |
| 25 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |
| 26 | Effective management of a county interest required the politician to do more than strike a bargain in which a vote , or votes , was the return for immediate patronage . |
| 27 | Nagged to fix a shelf , the male Procrastinator is more likely to go and polish his prize onions than fetch a hammer . |
| 28 | In fact women are clearly already making this kind of calculation for themselves and many do decide they would rather run the gauntlet of contraceptive side effects than risk a pregnancy and cope with the consequences . |
| 29 | Whatever one feels about his captaincy at Old Trafford , nobody could possibly do other than admire a man who went on to bat for more than five hours , immediately after suffering a truly horrific hammering in the field . |
| 30 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |