Example sentences of "to me than " in BNC.
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| 1 | London is different to me than it is to you . |
| 2 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 3 | On 19 March that year Crane told Winters that ‘ Williams probably means less to me than to you ’ , and then proceeded to a hesitant account of how he felt about this one of their older contemporaries : |
| 4 | That meant far more to me than being a bishop . |
| 5 | He talks more to me than anyone , I think . |
| 6 | And I 've had at least three real girlfriends , so there must be more to me than bad skin , frizzy hair and a slouch . |
| 7 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 8 | Shape and form are of greater importance to me than colour , so much of my work is in black and white . |
| 9 | Then I got my time and felt even better — the time was more important to me than the medal . |
| 10 | That 's much more important to me than just having someone recognise my style . |
| 11 | These dreams are realer to me than this house . |
| 12 | My father and Gabriel are realer to me than you or — anyone in the now . |
| 13 | Food is more frightening to me than death itself . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing means more to me than to be here with this bunch of guys and bring the Cup back where it should be . ’ |
| 15 | At the time West Ham was little more to me than a name , most directly associated with a football team that had a reputation for style and steadfast support in spite of limited success on the field . |
| 16 | If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to prove there 's more to me than blonde hair and long legs . ’ |
| 18 | But Deane , who has scored four times this season , says : ‘ There 's more to me than being just that . |
| 19 | It meant a lot to me than and I still buy it today . |
| 20 | ‘ Competing in the Olympic Games means more to me than anything else , ’ she says , ‘ except perhaps the dream of winning Wimbledon . |
| 21 | When my mother had died she , my sister , had become my mother , and more mother to me than any mother could ever have been . |
| 22 | To Rich , from earliest childhood , as Cis was ‘ more mother to me than any mother could ever have been ’ so Ifor was the chieftain brother , indomitable protector in the rough and wreckage of those valleys . |
| 23 | I could no more pretend that the Jesus-figure , indeed the Jesus of the kerygma , is unimportant to me than I could deny the significance of my parents and my past in the shaping of my future . ’ |
| 24 | Miss Evans said , ‘ You might say he 's been more like a father to me than a brother . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That child was more trouble to me than anyone would believe ! |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been a bad , black-hearted man , but this woman , dead as she is , is more to me than you ever were , or are , or can be . |
| 27 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 28 | I love Lucy , but at the time he was more important to me than she was , in one sense . |
| 29 | And if I have one person dearer to me than another , why must that person be singled out for an object of your violence ? |
| 30 | You were always something more to me than just my big brother . |