Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | than me having half |
| 2 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
| 3 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 4 | ‘ This might be a lot more tricky than I had first supposed . |
| 5 | It is a far more complex matter than I had first thought ’ . |
| 6 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
| 8 | No more than I want any part in Local Government where Councillors and Officers can spend twenty thousand pounds tripping all over Europe and let's put something straight , the T and A tonight , which we all believe , says Councillor has no right to complain about that cos he went on a jet plane to Brussels . |
| 9 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sick last season has ended , but I 'm looking forward to the next one more than I have any season . |
| 11 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 12 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 13 | You have the privilege of having found a lovely woman , privileged and — you know this better than I do unique . |
| 14 | than I do red meat , do n't eat |
| 15 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 16 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 17 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 18 | ‘ In which case it 's unlikely I would have seen any more than I did this afternoon in your garden . ’ |
| 19 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a very unique person and I saw him more deeply than I think other people did . |
| 21 | She was hurt , more than she believed possible , to know that Roman regarded her work so lightly that he could throw an elephant-sized spanner in her path without even thinking . |
| 22 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |
| 23 | In here , he seemed younger than she 'd first assumed . |
| 24 | Isabel looked up at him quickly , startled anew as she realised he was much younger than she 'd first supposed . |
| 25 | Starting to panic , she turned her bag upside-down — and the situation was a great deal worse than she 'd first feared . |
| 26 | He went to France to paint and stayed there for longer than she thought necessary . |
| 27 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 28 | None the less , the short skirt and fragile straps revealed more of her pale , honey-gold skin than she felt happy with . |
| 29 | Agnes clearly was n't going to take Maxim any more seriously as a spotter of fan clubs than she took Six as an organiser of them . |
| 30 | He seemed slightly older than she had first imagined . |