Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder .
2 Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days .
3 She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time .
4 All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years .
5 : I 've more natural hair up my nostrils than you have in that knitted rug of yours .
6 We should warn you that next March 12th another police constable will be on foot duty in Convent St. , and should he notice a repetition of your behaviour , we shall have to consider the possibility of taking even more stringent action than we have on this occasion .
7 Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life .
8 That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages .
9 In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities .
10 But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years .
11 While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years .
12 The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation .
13 But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now .
14 The amalgamation of farms has gone much too far in Britain — much further than it has in any other European country .
15 Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom .
16 Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days .
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 Despite the initial shock of being confronted with a typical Elizabethan letter or manuscript , the collector may be assured that , once he has troubled to master the unfamiliar forms of a number of the letters , their consistency will ensure that he will have no more — and sometimes less — trouble than he has with some of the missives that find their way to his desk or doormat today .
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