Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my Occulobe organ grants me keener micro-eyesight than yours ? |
| 2 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 3 | Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see Eire not qualify . |
| 4 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |
| 5 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 6 | At times I would give him more sedation than other times because of the course of the illness . |
| 7 | According to Brisbane dealer Phillip Bacon , ‘ Bond was passionate about his Australian collection and its dispersal will give him more pain than many more valuable assets ’ . |
| 8 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 9 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 10 | Coins rained down on to the stage , and accepting their payment caused her more embarrassment than the impromptu show she was putting on . |
| 11 | yeah sometimes , I 've phoned him more times than he 's phoned me , put it that way |
| 12 | Nothing could give us more pleasure than the sharing of a discovery in art and the process of seeing it transformed by my adjoining restoration studio and framing workshop into its full beauty . |
| 13 | The techniques he employs , he says , give him more flexibility than a potter and allow him maximum flexibility with malleable qualities of the metals he employs . |
| 14 | I think that Sir Ian has got it nearer right than popular belief . |
| 15 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 16 | You are giving them higher importance than the character of the ancient part of Skelton . |
| 17 | Mr Gould , ’ the piece continued , ‘ has left our shores for Southern [ South Australia ] and we can not wish him better success than that which he has hitherto experienced . ’ |
| 18 | He was a restrained and sophisticated lover and , once his initial surge of passion was quieted , his concentration was focused on giving her more pleasure than it was possible to imagine . |
| 19 | His heartbreaking search across the world has now brought him more joy than he ever wished for — and more than 100 relatives ! |
| 20 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 21 | He saw her through a gilt-framed mirror on the opposite wall , and that first glimpse of her brought him more joy than a dozen Christmases put together . |
| 22 | Such honesty brought him more trouble than hypocrisy would have done — with Louise Colet , for instance . |
| 23 | He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it . |
| 24 | ‘ Those two scores gave me greater pleasure than my hundreds against Glamorgan and Lancashire . |
| 25 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 26 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 27 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 28 | This was a new Lachlan for most of the men — quieter , grim but not violent ; and his efficiency and drive won him more respect than ever his temper had done . |
| 29 | ‘ Those weekends gave us more problems than they solved , ’ Ryan conceded . |
| 30 | He is a ‘ movie ’ man ; and nothing does him greater credit than his energetic campaign to get Kodak to mend their stock , so that colour-films of the past do not automatically fade and turn green . |