Example sentences of "than [adv] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a focus on both statutory and non-statutory social services in selected localities in an attempt to explore part of what Rhodes calls ‘ Community autonomy ’ , rather than merely his notion of ‘ local discretion ’ ; |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd be more likely to confide in you then , if you were more than just his banker . |
| 3 | All through that October and November , in my claustrophobic college room or in my dark-curtained hotel apartment , I grew to desire more of him than just his presence at my side as we wrote . |
| 4 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |
| 5 | Much more rests on Mr Annuar 's success than just his career . |
| 6 | if you look at the cure of erm th the Blind Man of Bethsiedum which happened a little earlier , a similar thing happens when Jesus cures his sight , he ca n't see at first and Jesus has to do some more work on him with spit , spittle and er you know the , but there 's something behind that it 's not just a er a nature miracle , sorry a healing miracle overcoming physical ailments , that 's spectacular in itself but the can take something else on board here without the attitude of people and their willingness to accept who Jesus was and what his details of participant Bartiamaus had been given the vision he 'd been given was more than just his eyesight . |
| 7 | Mr Kawawa repeated more than once his view that the Arusha Declaration not only permitted the takeover of capitalist concerns but actually called for ‘ the masses ’ to have control of the information media . |
| 8 | This was a new Lachlan for most of the men — quieter , grim but not violent ; and his efficiency and drive won him more respect than ever his temper had done . |
| 9 | And so it was that Eliot was immersed in what he called ironically " show business " , and although he had reached an age where he performed his tasks more slowly , now more than ever his life was being conducted under pressure . |
| 10 | But from Rome the British agent sent a warning while Charles was still a boy : ‘ Everybody says that he will be in time a far more dangerous enemy to the present establishment of the government of England than ever his father was . ’ |
| 11 | The consolation for him and for Britain is that he has been far better prepared for the emotional pressures of his destiny than ever his father was . |
| 12 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |
| 13 | She wanted him so much , longed to feel more than simply his mouth on hers . |
| 14 | Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had . |
| 15 | It was of a different , finer , texture than then his whistle as he crossed the courtyard . |
| 16 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 17 | He was younger at entry than either his predecessor ( Bonar Law ) or his successor ( Neville Chamberlain ) as leader of the Conservative Party , but older , and in most cases significantly so , than any other Prime Minister , of any party , of the past two hundred years . |