Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 2 | Often I stay longer in the shop than I mean to because it smells so good . |
| 3 | Tom then hit his tee-shot in a fury and he struck it further than I go on holidays . |
| 4 | Fine , I 'm better than I deserve to be . |
| 5 | ‘ More than I approve of most of what I see down here . |
| 6 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 7 | We also worked out in the end a system whereby Brian would react to my jump rather than I react to his throw . |
| 8 | By providing patients and their owners with organised puppy parties , I can save more lives than I will with drugs or scalpel . |
| 9 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 10 | It is more than I bargain for to recall the names of my own … family . ’ |
| 11 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 12 | I sound more scared than I want to . |
| 13 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |
| 14 | In later chapters , then , I hope that I will display a more ecumenical perspective than I manage in this one ! |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't belong in his life , any more than I belong in yours or in anybody 's . |
| 16 | For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't seem to have any more clout with your two friends than I have with the three of you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 21 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 22 | ‘ More than I have to anyone else . |
| 23 | But I 'm not remaining in your debt one second longer than I have to . |
| 24 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 25 | I 've no intention of staying over there longer than I have to , and Sorrel 's away for the weekend herself . ’ |
| 26 | I mean I do n't want to enhance the cost of that any more than I have to . |
| 27 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 28 | I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies . |
| 29 | Even if she did claim to know who it was we 'd find it difficult to convince a judge , without far more proof than I have at the moment . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I probably committed more fouls in that game than I have throughout my entire career — I was that determined to do well . ’ |