Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 2 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 3 | In a properly balanced meal , only one dish should be really hot although chilli/cayenne may be present in others — much as we in the West indiscriminately use black pepper . |
| 4 | And that is why we are now taking this direct route of saying , that policy and resources , as the policy making body of this council , should have some input to make sure that we in the planning committee are not the situation on a planning application when instead we deal with the moral issue of turning away people who need homes . |
| 5 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 6 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 7 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |
| 8 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 9 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 10 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 11 | Very , very easily vaporises it , but and then when I do that I get minus sixteen plus I minus the square root off one thousand , one hundred and fifty six , all over two , plus minus sixteen , plus or minus what 's the square root of one thousand one hundred and fifty six ? |
| 12 | ‘ I longed to be as good as him in the schoolroom , ’ she says . |
| 13 | Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead . |
| 14 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 15 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 16 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 17 | They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time — and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events . |
| 18 | Here and elsewhere we have been more committed than he in the interests of clarity of exposition . |
| 19 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 20 | She 's worse than you for the bingo . |
| 21 | Susan is there she said the twenty first and I on the twenty first . |
| 22 | ‘ Somebody did tell me he thought they might be a tiny bit stronger than us at the moment . |
| 23 | The air was full of sounds — the jangle of reins or goat bells , noises — could they travel so far ? — of parties making for , perhaps already on , the lake ready to take advantage of the promised full moon , dog barkings , cow lowings , sheep , horses : the town and its fjords of fields was as restless as he with the hidden cries of the night . |
| 24 | these , these , your tiles are the same as ours in the bathroom have got slight raise on the edge |
| 25 | Just the same as you with the other game . |
| 26 | Although Angel One had been trained in kendo , the ancient art of Japanese swordsmanship , as part of his overall mastery of martial arts , he knew from having witnessed his opponent in action , that the man was more skilled than he with the katana . |
| 27 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 28 | So I thought it was nice that we in the Women 's Guild declared Women 's Lib this year and held our own . |
| 29 | But if it was as clever and efficient as we in the West say it is , then one might expect it to have achieved much more . |
| 30 | School friends who spent their summer holidays at the shieling have assured me that the cows were as alert as they to the seasons and the signs of preparation . |