Example sentences of "than [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this Lord Reid said that to regulate a person 's existing trade may be a greater restraint than prohibiting him from engaging in a new trade . |
| 2 | Rather than accusing him of anachronism , academic critics tended to concentrate their fire on internal contradictions or flawed assumptions in his policy . |
| 3 | In any event the handing of the letters to the son could amount to no more than using him as a messenger . |
| 4 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 5 | ‘ Take it from me , kid — ambushing 's a lot better than smacking him in the snout . |
| 6 | She had no idea of how she might use it : draining him of pity would be worse than draining him of money , and she would drown in guilt . |
| 7 | Better than shoving him in a creche in n it ? |
| 8 | Johnson 's problem was the IAAF 's problem , and the bottom line was that when he was caught cheating in Seoul , the powers-that-be imposed the statutory punishment of two years rather than banning him for life . |