Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] than he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully the initial push towards the enemy will ensure that the Fanatic hits the enemy more often than he hits his mates … but you can never be sure . |
| 2 | If Father were to hear them he 'd whip me out of that place much quicker than he pushed me in , I can tell you . |
| 3 | Simpson could see that they knew each other much better than he 'd presumed . |
| 4 | Nicklaus , now 52 , was one of 12 players to break 70 with a 69 , a score matched by not only Bernhard Langer and Steve Richardson , of the Europeans , but also Woosnam , who began his defence of the title much better than he had expected . |
| 5 | These , perhaps by building on parts of Aristotle , will be able to advance knowledge even further than he did . |
| 6 | He found that man more easily than he had anticipated , quite near at hand , indeed , having himself just completed his return charge and now wondering what to do next . |
| 7 | Her departure Saturday night , and with her her wages , had him find out harsh reality much sooner than he had supposed . |
| 8 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 9 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 10 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |