Example sentences of "than i [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He had planned the whole scheme and ought to have a better idea than me of what was going to happen . |
2 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
3 | no one was more surprised than me to be |
4 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
5 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |
8 | They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves . |
9 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
10 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
11 | They are better than me at some things . |
12 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
13 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
14 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
15 | I say gel but she was a year older than me at least . |
16 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
17 | He 'd be faster than me at long distance , by a long way . |
18 | I can tell you something , Alex is a lot better than me at it . |
19 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
20 | But they seem more alive than me in here . |
21 | Not really , it does n't annoy me but I know there are some like women older than me in in my office that know they 're not gon na get anywhere because it 's all men . |
22 | Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead . |
23 | Er we did we were gon na raise a point on that the clash of the regulatory rules and the producery duty of under trust law , you know and I I think there you know there there was a comment that that I picked up with Professor Gower you know in his report which I think where he said the Government obviously have greater confidence than I in reliance on pristine trust law in relation to modern commercial developments such as unit trusts and occupational pension schemes , which its founding fathers never contemplated . |
24 | Er well we did , we were gon na raise a point on that , the clash of the regulatory rules and the duty of under Trust Law , you know , and I , I think there , there was a comment tha that I picked up with Professor Gower you know in his report which I think , where he said the Government obviously have greater confidence than I in reliance on pristine Trust Law in relation to modern commercial developments such as unit trusts and occupational pension schemes , which its founding fathers never contemplated . |