Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could the tin and processed food industries have got where they have without the benefit of the tomato compounds which colour , flavour , thicken , and conceal so many deficiencies ? |
| 2 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 3 | For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't seem to have any more clout with your two friends than I have with the three of you . ’ |
| 5 | Even if she did claim to know who it was we 'd find it difficult to convince a judge , without far more proof than I have at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 7 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just found myself usually more affected by the clichés in pop , in art , in life , than I have by the … ‘ |
| 9 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 10 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 11 | Judi looked better than she had in the morgue . |
| 12 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 13 | She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's probably simpler to count who has n't had cosmetic surgery than who has in the States . |
| 15 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 16 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 17 | ‘ I know people have a different attitude to things now than we had before the war , but you and Chris are still the same sort of people . |
| 18 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 19 | ‘ Ferguson will give us more threat up front than we had in the cup tie , when our performance , particularly in the second half , was shocking . ’ |
| 20 | Sir Patrick said : ‘ There is in my belief , and in my experience , a profound desire amongst everyday people in Northern Ireland , right across the community , that the politicians should resume talks , because there is a recognition that there has to be a way of securing a less antagonist way of living in a divided society than we have at the moment . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Does that mean we shall see a great deal more of each other than we have in the past ? ’ she asked . |
| 22 | What is more disturbing today is that the Germans have been quicker and more successful to recognise the causes of the decline in their research community than we have in the UK . |
| 23 | Most likely they would proceed no further than they had with the identification of ‘ Subject A ’ , especially since there was no one ( apart from themselves ) to miss her and she had never been missed . |
| 24 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 25 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that general practitioners , whether fund-holders or not , as a result of the new contract — which initially was often bitterly opposed — are now giving patients a much better service than they had in the past ? |
| 27 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 28 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 29 | If anything , farm workers now identify more with farmers than they have in the past . |
| 30 | However , it will be interesting to see whether , under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , their parents will have some liability , and perhaps exercise more supervision over their youngsters than they have in the past . |