Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] than i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Fishfinger 's Koi — they eat better than I do … |
| 2 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 3 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 4 | Nor shall I stay longer than I need . ’ |
| 5 | No sooner had I turned away to go downstairs than I heard a strange , ghostly laugh . |
| 6 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 7 | However , in some respects Heath goes further than I do . |
| 8 | You know what you want to buy better than I do anyway . |
| 9 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 10 | By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did . |
| 11 | the , the , Daniel was living , you know , you know better than I do how many years , how many centuries Daniel was living before Jesus ' birth then ? |
| 12 | Carson looked at her blankly , and she went on , ‘ I 've stayed longer than I intended . ’ |
| 13 | As it is , I 've stayed longer than I intended . ’ |
| 14 | And more crossed even than I knew . |
| 15 | Either I 'd counted wrong or Cawthorne walked faster than I 'd thought . |
| 16 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 17 | But we had walked further than I had realized , and I called to her to come back . |
| 18 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 19 | ‘ That went better than I expected , ’ said Damian as the limousine swept back to Auckland . |
| 20 | It went better than I hoped , probably because everyone is anxious about giving the right impression , with the May elections coming up . ’ |
| 21 | Agnew said : ‘ It went better than I dared hope . |
| 22 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 23 | It knew better than I did what to do . |
| 24 | Yeah called me in two days so they gave me today and tomorrow off as well , so it 's sort of gone longer than I expected you know ? |
| 25 | I — I went further than I intended and I fell over . |
| 26 | Another , making a joke out of his poverty , hit a good drive and sighed , ‘ That 's gone further than I went on my holidays . ’ |
| 27 | Erm , she died quicker than I think they expected actually , she had cancer of the liver , so I 'm glad she did n't suffer any longer . |
| 28 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 29 | But it would have taken more than me to convince Harold Wilson that this was so and that conspiracies were not afoot . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've learned more than I expected , ’ she admitted . |