Example sentences of "go [adv] than [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner had I turned away to go downstairs than I heard a strange , ghostly laugh . |
| 2 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ That went better than I expected , ’ said Damian as the limousine swept back to Auckland . |
| 5 | It went better than I hoped , probably because everyone is anxious about giving the right impression , with the May elections coming up . ’ |
| 6 | Agnew said : ‘ It went better than I dared hope . |
| 7 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 8 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 11 | In Knuller v DPP the Law Lords considered that the word " corrupt " implied a powerful and corrosive effect , which went further than one suggested definition , " to lead morally astray " . |
| 12 | One day they went further than they intended , were playing by a pool , when Mary fell in . |
| 13 | I — I went further than I intended and I fell over . |
| 14 | To avoid too much fuss , Anna had gone further than she intended , told her mother that she had seen Griselda 's corpse and talked to the offending motorist who had been very distressed . |
| 15 | Another , making a joke out of his poverty , hit a good drive and sighed , ‘ That 's gone further than I went on my holidays . ’ |