Example sentences of "than [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What more could I do than I had already done ? |
| 2 | It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it . |
| 3 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 4 | While I did not lose interest in this problem it became clear , after observing a series of routine cases , that medical evidence was often far less important than I had previously imagined . |
| 5 | In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before . |
| 6 | I remember thinking that the whole process of being shot down and being killed seemed very much simpler and less horrible than I had always imagined . |
| 7 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been thinking of you — — far more ’ , he wrote , ‘ than I had ever expected to think of a young man — but then I 've got to know you so well , I really miss you very much . ’ |
| 9 | It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed … |
| 10 | In spite of depressing circumstances , I was more excited and confident than I had ever been . |
| 11 | I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before . |
| 12 | I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life ! |
| 13 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 14 | My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life . |
| 15 | Actually the truth , beautiful in its simplicity , is far kinder to everybody concerned than I had ever hoped . |
| 16 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 17 | Across the bridge the track followed the old corpse road back to Muker through meadows fuller with flowers than I had ever seen before . |
| 18 | I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital . |
| 19 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 20 | The air of the moors , the freedom of home , and the beginning of independence made Diana and Mary happier than I had ever seen them . |
| 21 | I was more excited than I had ever been before . |
| 22 | There were more living things than I had ever dreamt of ! |
| 23 | The rocks were gigantic boulders of conglomerate , monstrous in their barren strangeness , much larger now we were close to them than I had ever realized from the island . |
| 24 | We went into the warehouse , which was enormous , and encountered a sea of bicycles — more bicycles than I had ever imagined-could possibly exist . |
| 25 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 26 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 27 | ‘ In the six weeks of the Hornsey revolution ’ , wrote a student the following Christmas in Revelations — the Hornsey students ' paper-'I had more education than I had ever previously experienced . |
| 28 | Our friendship had brought us closer than I had ever been with anyone before . |
| 29 | I had banged my head badly and it was bleeding but my father was more angry than I had ever seen him . |
| 30 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |