Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 32 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 33 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ I 've just found myself usually more affected by the clichés in pop , in art , in life , than I have by the … ‘ |
| 35 | I do n't wish to offend you any more than I need to … ’ |
| 36 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 37 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |
| 38 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 39 | erm I 'd like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than I do at the moment I tend to get lost in what 's in front of me . |
| 40 | ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training . |
| 41 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |
| 42 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 43 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 44 | It 's the people , I mean the people in this room know a great deal more people than I do on my own for example . |
| 45 | Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly . |
| 46 | Now to me I sound a lot different than I do on tape . |
| 47 | For example , I share a greater proportion of my genes with my sister than I do with my cousin . |
| 48 | No , when it comes to resurrections , I believe in the defibrillator and that 's about it ; which means I have less trouble with Frankenstein than I do with say , Lazarus , to cite one of Pa 's favourite yarns . |
| 49 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 50 | I feel more in common with the Reverend William Paley than I do with the distinguished modern philosopher , a well-known atheist , with whom I once discussed the matter at dinner . |
| 51 | They seem to say I spend more time with reptiles than I do with them or some people are very scared so they do n't tend to come around . |
| 52 | Other readers may respond more positively than I do to these over-leisurely presumptions on their interest . |
| 53 | Despite the intelligent coupling , this set can not be recommended except to those who respond more positively than I do to Giulini 's rather limp direction ( ) |
| 54 | I actually feel more at home in Britain and in the States and France than I do in the North . |
| 55 | Surprisingly I 'm very interested in that ; I look at fashion magazines more than I look at news magazines . |
| 56 | Thomson does push ahead at the risoluto marking in the third movement slightly more than I care for , and there are one or two idiosyncratic touches elsewhere , albeit of little importance . |
| 57 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 58 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
| 59 | The Pope 's got more chance of gettin' pregnant than I 'ave of gettin' into the charts . |
| 60 | We 've certainly got more in common than I 'ave with my real brother . |