Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 2 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 3 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 5 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 6 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 7 | Derek Hampson , assistant manager of the RSPCA home , said : ‘ The dog was much older than we had at first been informed and he was very sick . |
| 8 | The most important lesson to be learnt from the fossil discoveries of the 1840s and 1850s was that the history of life was far more complex than anyone had at first realized . |
| 9 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 10 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 11 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 12 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 13 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 14 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 15 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |