Example sentences of "than [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 31 | Far more than I expected , and more than you realise . |
| 32 | ‘ Better than I expected . |
| 33 | ‘ It 's much bigger than I expected , ’ she admitted . |
| 34 | ‘ Here 's Rex — sooner than I expected . |
| 35 | Explaining about Jesus proved more difficult than I expected . |
| 36 | And , and really it was just as experiment , and erm , the reason I put it in was , I thought , well , you know , this is , this is an ignored book , and as you , as you found to your cost , it 's actually hard to come by , harder to come by than I expected . |
| 37 | I must be getting tired : Anya 's binding spell has packed more of a punch than I expected . |
| 38 | was more valuable than I expected it to be ; |
| 39 | ‘ I was surprised to find much more wreckage than I expected , ’ said BNFL Sellafield apprentice Paul Rooney . |
| 40 | To your numerous enquiries , I must answer rather briefly , for I have so bad a cold as to be half blind : add to which so bad a cough & sore throat , that if they do nt go I shall be in town much sooner than I expected … my eyes are so sadly worse , that no bird under an Ostrich shall I soon be able to do . |
| 41 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 42 | Yes , I have to say I enjoyed it far more than I expected . |
| 43 | So I do n't know about anybody else but that 's cheaper than I expected it to be . |
| 44 | I finished my business sooner than I expected . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ That went better than I expected , ’ said Damian as the limousine swept back to Auckland . |
| 46 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 47 | last night actually and it did n't exactly help , well , it 's a long trip up here , longer than I expected and I did n't |
| 48 | 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 ? |
| 49 | So I think there 's an element still to come out in , in that area , er but if you look at er , er the er issue generally , there 's a lot in the White Paper on er more than I expected actually , on energy efficiency , which I think is one of the keys to getting down er levels of carbon dioxide , and there is discussion about some of the many many ways in which the role of the motor car will affect er how we reduce our C O two . |
| 50 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 51 | But it was easier than she expected . |
| 52 | It was more than she expected . |
| 53 | Jessie was right : he had come back , but much sooner than she expected . |
| 54 | Overall , the standard was lower than she expected though she was impressed with the Germans , Sandra Schmidt and winner Jan Kellner who , she felt , was very stylish , fit and supporting . |
| 55 | He was taller than she expected and wore a wall-cut dinner jacket that contrasted with the eccentric fancy-dress of some of the other diners . |
| 56 | But of course to Miss Hoity Toity Grenfell , it was nothing less than she expected . |
| 57 | It was a longer climb than she expected . |
| 58 | Christine obviously thought she was going to get much less than she expected from Graham Mills ' will . |
| 59 | As he mounted the dais to receive his award , Nathan Bryce had been taller than she expected , and startlingly handsome in a beautifully tailored suit . |
| 60 | ‘ Plenty of people would like to have done , ’ he said , more forthcoming than she expected . |