Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | play with him now , he plays better than you . |
| 2 | ‘ But , gentlemen , if Quinn was not involved , he got closer than anyone to them , saw them , spoke to them . |
| 3 | Conversely , where the tenant is likely to give discounts to certain customers ( eg those who pay by credit card , or employees ) , or where he is likely to have sales or special offers , his advisers should attempt to ensure that it is the amount he receives rather than the full retail price which is to be included in the calculation of turnover . |
| 4 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
| 5 | Does he know better than doctors , nurses and the other health service staff whose life work has been delivering the service ? |
| 6 | When Ralph of Diss searched back through ancient and modern history for parallels to the revolt of 1173–4 he found more than thirty examples of sons rebelling against their parents , including some from the recent history of both Anjou and Poitou , but he cites no case of a Queen rebelling against her husband . |
| 7 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 8 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 9 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |
| 10 | He has more than £50m wrapped up in the concern , via his 35% share stake , and needs to protect it . |
| 11 | He analysed more than 100 responses to a television programme Help asking for experiences of residential care . |
| 12 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 13 | Will he commission a report to consider in detail and with expertise the fluctuations to which he referred rather than , as he has , jumping to his own conclusions about why such fluctuations should exist ? |
| 14 | Cos she was something one night , well said yeah that she wants more than , he wants more than two . |
| 15 | No sooner had he done so than she wiped the place on her cheek with her handkerchief . |
| 16 | It was there as confirmation of the course he sailed rather than as an ever-present guide , as were the slowly changing figures on the Loran 's small screen on the bulkhead beside the companionway . |
| 17 | ‘ Since we last fought in 1987 I can report that Darlington is in better shape , ’ he told more than 100 members of the Darlington Conservative Association at his adoption meeting . |
| 18 | He deserved better than that . |
| 19 | Faldo will never achieve the heights of Nicklaus ( will anyone ? ) , and he will probably never the win the affection of the golfing public , but he deserved better than you gave him . |
| 20 | Certainly , it seemed to me , he deserved better than our little company … |
| 21 | At the time of the Westerfield poisonings he had sometimes been a difficult man to agree with , and he 'd more than once annoyed her by his attitude . |
| 22 | Ledger took the simplest possible feature of language — the occurrence of particular letters of the alphabet — and by subjecting this to a complicated multivariate analysis he came closer than many previous workers to identifying particular authors and even works . |
| 23 | He drove more than 12,000 miles in competition on the track , and raced against 240 of the 596 drivers who had ever entered the event . |
| 24 | He drove further than he meant to . |
| 25 | The person who no longer believes will blame what he believed rather than the way he believed , and the rationalization this involves means that the chances of his reconsidering belief in the future are greatly diminished . |
| 26 | In the aftermath of the trial , the Sun 's report mentioned that the dead man had ‘ boasted that he turned more than SIXTY young mums into his personal sex slaves ’ . |
| 27 | He lengthened rather than quickened his pace — difficult to detect from behind — stepped into the alley and sprinted as hard as he could . |
| 28 | In all first-class cricket he had 2,784 victims ( average 18.16 ) , taking a hundred wickets in no less than fourteen seasons , including three times when he captured more than 200 wickets . |
| 29 | BOXER Frank Bruno said he would ‘ pull no punches ’ in his campaign to help underprivileged young people when he joined more than 400 youngsters being given a new chance in life by the Prince 's Trust at a special promotion in Ayr yesterday . |
| 30 | I hated it when he bribed rather than tipped , left without saying goodbye or arrived without saying hello , all perfectly acceptable in his world , but not in mine . |