Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 2 | No but you can get them you can get them for less than that . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 4 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 5 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 6 | I 've written about this before and I expect I 'll write about it again , because I get more frustrated knitters questioning me about this than almost anything else . |
| 7 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 8 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 9 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 10 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 11 | For real benefit , allow your exercise to help you on more than simply a physical level . |
| 12 | I 'd actually prefer to send you to that than go to it myself , because I think that would be a better use of time . |
| 13 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 14 | She wo n't charge me with more than my due , nor will she let that lad pay for a death I 'm sure he does not owe . |
| 15 | But their recording finds them in less than top form , and Solti sometimes leads them astray . |
| 16 | Narratorial frustration is evident in the disjointed structure of the novel which focuses briefly on a number of subcultures of professional London without bothering to link them in more than a cursory manner . |
| 17 | And the fact is Jimi just turned me on more than anybody else , for his music . |
| 18 | Obviously we do n't want to expose them to more than they can take . |
| 19 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 20 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 21 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 22 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 23 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 24 | And Robert Urquhart had been shown to be lying to her about more than his affections . |
| 25 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I 'm hardly going to get back into bed with him after more than a whole year . |
| 27 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 28 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |
| 29 | Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time . |
| 30 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |