Example sentences of "he than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More horror of him than the shit of the pit . |
| 2 | There was no offering more gratifying to him than the trust of adolescents . |
| 3 | We know the promptings of his soul , and we are closer to him than the vein in his neck . |
| 4 | But he was soon to find that Tolkien had more to offer him than the chance to learn Old Norse . |
| 5 | For High Wood was the true home of their ringer fox — he had no more business in the small covert where they had found him than the man in the moon . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's a funny old goat , ’ the pilot said , ‘ but he has more goodness in him than the rest of the city put together . |
| 7 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 8 | But then Barry has more sides to him than the Sunday Football League . |
| 9 | But when the whole sum is due , by no intendment the acceptance of parcel can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff ; but in the case at bar it was resolved that the payment and acceptance of parcel before the day in satisfaction of the whole would be a good satisfaction in regard of circumstance of time ; for peradventure parcel of it before the day would be more beneficial to him than the whole at the day , and the value of the satisfaction is not material ; so if I am bound in £20 to pay you £10 at Westminster , and you request me to pay you £5 at the day at York , and you will accept it in full satisfaction for the whole £10 , it is a good satisfaction for the whole , for the expenses to pay it at York is sufficient satisfaction . ’ |
| 10 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |
| 11 | Lennox , despite his anti-English position , would find it intolerable to be a member of the Beaton faction ; within a few weeks , he would go over to the pro-English party , his hopes of his marriage to Margaret , daughter of Angus and Margaret Tudor , and of English recognition of him as heir-presumptive , should Arran break with England , weighing more with him than the desire for liberty and honour expressed in the July bond . |
| 12 | That part of me which , when first we met , I should willingly have made over to Jean-Claude — and which he seemed to make no attempt to acquire — was , of course , no more available to him than the source of his being was to me . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not very clever , because it makes the parents look as if they 're idiots when they 're not — it says more about him than the people he 's speaking about . ’ |