Example sentences of "than [pers pn] had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 2 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 5 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 6 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 7 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When this class disappeared in the Revolution , the peasants increased their landownership to 28 per cent more than they had before 1917 . |
| 10 | But the statistics reveal the economic consequence : a manufacturing sector in 1990 with a smaller share of GDP than it had in 1960 ( see chart 3 on next page ) . |
| 11 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 12 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 13 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 14 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 15 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 16 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 17 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 18 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 19 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 20 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 21 | No one had risked more for tariff reform than he had in 1923 . |