Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |
| 2 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 3 | Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead . |
| 4 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 5 | Whether it was McColgan or Meyer , I was fully prepared so I could go faster than them in the closing stages . ’ |
| 6 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 7 | There 's an ambiguity I suspect it it 's a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role , did I understand you to say that Eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the W E one seven seven , we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will Eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry W E one seven seven ? |
| 8 | Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time . |
| 9 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 10 | As I stood hesitating in the doorway , Miss Kenton appeared at my side and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , I have a little more time than you at the moment . |
| 11 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 12 | She 's worse than you for the bingo . |
| 13 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 14 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 15 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 16 | There are worse men than him in the world ! ’ |
| 17 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 18 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 19 | ‘ There are more difficult working environments than mine at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | Although Angel One had been trained in kendo , the ancient art of Japanese swordsmanship , as part of his overall mastery of martial arts , he knew from having witnessed his opponent in action , that the man was more skilled than he with the katana . |
| 21 | Though the news of her ‘ engagement ’ could not possibly have come from any other source than he of the ‘ My office — now ’ order . |
| 22 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 23 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 24 | Last season Ian gained full International honours , completed his century of Palace goals to join the select group of just five men to have achieved that feat for us since the club 's foundation back in 1905 , and scored twice as Palace beat Everton 4–2 to win the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final at Wembley , while his virtuoso hat-trick , scored in just eighteen minutes during the second half of Palace 's penultimate game of 1990–91 , at Wimbledon , demonstrated in magnificent style that when Ian is on form there is no more dangerous or exciting player than he in the entire Football League . |
| 25 | Here and elsewhere we have been more committed than he in the interests of clarity of exposition . |
| 26 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 27 | You will quickly realise , however , that it is a fact of life that the Magpies and the Mackems , despite having had consistently poorer teams than us over the last decade , will always grab the headlines . |
| 28 | ‘ Somebody did tell me he thought they might be a tiny bit stronger than us at the moment . |
| 29 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 30 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |