Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " 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 | I think maybe I have more ill effects than I imagined from last night … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ More than I approve of most of what I see down here . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 6 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 7 | In later chapters , then , I hope that I will display a more ecumenical perspective than I manage in this one ! |
| 8 | But I still had more room than I needed in that so that was quite useful . |
| 9 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 10 | Other readers may respond more positively than I do to these over-leisurely presumptions on their interest . |
| 11 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 12 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 13 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 15 | Leapor devotes a greater part of her poetry to the description of agriculture and to questions related to the use of land than she does to domestic service . |
| 16 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 19 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 20 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 21 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 22 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 23 | In Peru a worker with a minimum salary — already a privileged person — must work today seven times longer to earn the price of a kilo of rice and five times longer for a tin of powdered milk than she did in 1981 . |
| 24 | Just as many children score lower on a word-recognition reading test than they ought , because the words have no context of meaning , so she may be able to spell better than she demonstrates on this test . |
| 25 | No I do n't think it really makes an difference on the detailed alignment of an inner relief road , I think it 's basically the perception of motorists using er the system in that part of Harrogate and Knaresborough that it would be quicker to use the existing A fifty nine through Knaresborough than you go along one of the radial routes onto er the inner relief road . |
| 26 | The small print on the contracts is often confusing and you can end up paying more than you thought for longer than you anticipated . |
| 27 | Michelin road-maps mark genuinely arduous or dangerous stretches of road with a broken red line , and though the roadways themselves quite often turn out to be less awkward than you expect from such warnings , less awkward does not mean altogether easy . |
| 28 | : I 've more natural hair up my nostrils than you have in that knitted rug of yours . |
| 29 | They always mean that as a compliment , but it 's a dubious one when you think about it : is it so very satisfactory to look MUCH better to one person than you do to twenty million ? |
| 30 | I tell you , Dr. Briant , you 've unleashed a hell of a lot more than you realize with this project of yours . |