Example sentences of "than [pron] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 3 | I understand life , and the family ties that make up almost all of it , much less than I ever did . |
| 4 | I still do n't like regulars any more than I ever did ; the officers are not too bad , but the men are not a good type , and the ex-ranker officer is a strain to live with . |
| 5 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
| 6 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 9 | I do n't think of her much , no more than I ever did , but something terrible is going on . |
| 10 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 11 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 12 | Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol . |
| 13 | She was glad she could n't see him properly ; the face that undoubtedly matched these horribly sarcastic comments would be bound to make her feel worse than she already did . |
| 14 | She had just read the last paragraph when the kitchen door opened and Matey entered , far earlier than she normally did , to stare at the unlikely scene before her : Dr Neil characteristically leaning back in his wooden Windsor armchair , McAllister sitting on her stool , reading the paper , the used coffee-cups and the empty biscuit plate sitting between them . |
| 15 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 16 | She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something … |
| 17 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 18 | I dare n't have done if I had n't er oh oh I know once my my doctor came to see me about something and there was erm a lot of people used to use er some pills oh what were they called , little round pills , when at the monthly periods they used to use them , oh Doctor Johnson 's , Doctor somebody 's pills , now they would have the effect of er your period you would see more than you usually did . |
| 19 | Even when you were first married to Julius , I saw more of your husband than you ever did . |
| 20 | Subjects took longer to answer a subsequent question like Did the boy that the man saw wave ? than one like Did the boy the man saw wave ? |
| 21 | I think the actions of the security firm at the time were very quick , and but for their actions I feel we may have had far more serious consequences than we actually did . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 23 | The former Spurs full-back , whose Wimbledon team were among the originators of the direct approach , complained : ‘ Leeds hoofed the ball about 50 times further than we ever did and relied on John Lukic knocking it on to Lee Chapman 's head for about 70 per cent of their attacks . ’ |
| 24 | Now because of course we now have more computers in society than we ever did before , and we do n't have lots of paper files before us inevi invariably , the information is being held upon the computer . |
| 25 | Do we not know more than we ever did about crowds , power , group behaviour , motivation , national and religious hysteria and so forth ? |
| 26 | Now that Situationist texts are widely available ( and with these publications adding to the list ) it is ironic that they seem less crucial than they once did . |
| 27 | Americans certainly use lots of energy , but less prodigiously than they once did . |
| 28 | There is another way in which trade figures today mean less than they once did . |
| 29 | The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age . |
| 30 | The university and polytechnic libraries now spend probably more in real terms on library guides than they ever did . |