Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I think maybe I have more ill effects than I imagined from last night … ’ |
2 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
3 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
4 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
5 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
6 | While the provisional agreement reached in the July 1992 ECOFIN was better than we feared at one juncture , it still marks a worsening in our relative position . |
7 | Surely no civil servant had more unique or peaceful surroundings in which to work than we did on this day . |
8 | We 'll not be building any more than we intended for this year — well , a house or two more , maybe , but nothing beyond . |
9 | Based on a household with two adults — assuming no rebates or transitional relief — people in Lothian living in property valued at 58,000 and above will pay more under the Council Tax than they did under last year 's Community Charge . |
10 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
11 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
12 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
13 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
14 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
15 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
16 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
17 | Sent away to prep school at eight , he was lonely and homesick and no sooner had he settled in than he moved to public school , to Gordonstoun , a bleak and desolate place on the windswept north-east coast of Scotland , with a regime to match . |
18 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |