Example sentences of "than his mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her son Edward VII , though he knew far less about clergymen than his mother , continued the same trenchancy . |
| 2 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 3 | The teacher suggested that Mrs Singh could help by reading with him , Mrs Singh to read one line , Jeetinder the next ; she was evidently unaware of the possibility that Jeetinder 's reading could be more competent than his mother 's . |
| 4 | Luke Taylor Eoghan Burns , who celebrates his first birthday on Saturday , is a precious baby — and to more people than his mother . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm trying to , ’ Carrie said , so impatiently that she sounded , he thought , more like a cross girl his own age than his mother . |
| 6 | Not that I 'm surprised ; they 're all tarred with the same brush , that family ; the boy 's no better and no worse than his mother or his uncle . |
| 7 | There were fewer of them and they were shorter than his mother 's and none of them was dated beyond giving a day of the week . |
| 8 | The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother . |
| 9 | He was quicker than his mother in bending to retrieve them — and all his amusement vanished . |
| 10 | Though the court of Louis was surely bilingual in Romance and Germanic , Charles 's birthplace ( and hence the implied origin of his nurse — which may be more relevant here than his mother 's ) , and the likely residence-pattern of his early years suggest ( again paradoxically for a future " French " king ) that his native language was , as in Walahfrid 's case , a form of German . |
| 11 | By the time I 've finished with this room and had the forensic lab 's report I 'll be able to tell you a lot more than his mother ever knew about him . |
| 12 | ‘ Takes after his father rather than his mother ? ’ |