Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I opened Keith 's shirt and saw a bullet hole just a little bigger than my middle finger nail . |
| 2 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 3 | 5/5 Natrel Plus , Ylang ‘ This is much better than my usual brand . |
| 4 | Q Having read rave reviews of the Canon BJ-10E bubblejet printer , I was very disappointed , once I 'd bought one , to find that , when driven by the IBM ProPrinter X24/E driver ( as recommended in the Canon manual ) , the resulting print quality was little better than my old Epson 9-pin dot matrix printer . |
| 5 | ‘ It is better than my earlier victory over Terry Griffiths because I played much better , ’ said Higgins , who produced a mature break of 99 in the eighth frame to kill off Terry 's revival as he battled back from a 3-0 deficit . |
| 6 | ‘ At 39 he 's a bit older than my other boyfriends and past the stage of running around . |
| 7 | ‘ No worse than my first day as a medical student , anyway . |
| 8 | It was far worse than my first day on the wards . ’ |