Example sentences of "than you [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only two o'clock in the afternoon and already me and the boys have had more beer , sex , drugs and Nintendo than you 'll have all year , you sad f— ! |
| 2 | spend five minutes now , than you 'll have to sort of come in again . |
| 3 | Others may surprise you by being woefully unprepared and you may find yourself taking the initiative more often than you might have expected in order to be able to put across as many of your good points as possible . |
| 4 | THE SEABOARD IS a little less Eastern than you might have remembered it but to the enterprising Americans this is not a problem . |
| 5 | There is a far wider range of hollies available than you might have originally supposed , and some have an elegance that you would n't normally associate with them . |
| 6 | ‘ But more than you would have got if Miss Morgan had agreed to your suggestion of splitting the fund up between you . |
| 7 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 8 | With careful thought and the application of ruthless logic , it may be possible to establish a much larger claim than you would have expected . |
| 9 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 10 | ‘ When somebody is going through a crisis they are opening up to you and a deep bond does develop , more perhaps than you would have with a doctor . |
| 11 | Do you get more recognition or coverage than you would have working by yourselves ? |
| 12 | It is much better than you would have imagined , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 14 | ‘ And I bet I 've absorbed more about seamanship than you would have about cooking . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And , if I may say so , my suspicions are that you 'll be making a considerably better living on the salary I pay you than you would have made working for yourself … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps I have been less civil than you would have reason to expect . ’ |
| 17 | ( More marks are typically lost by failing to write one answer altogether than by presenting two or three answers which are slightly weaker than you would have wished . ) |
| 18 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 19 | Or rather you 're stuck with a lot less than you could have . |
| 20 | ‘ She 'll get her climax — which is more than you could have managed . |
| 21 | than you could have sucked from me |
| 22 | You could look at it and say its 500K more than you COULD have spent . |
| 23 | It does n't matter how small your primordial lung is , there must be some time out of water that you can just endure with the lung , which is a little bit longer than you could have endured without the lung . |
| 24 | Where there was a danger in the past of them getting tagged as the Talulah Gosh it 's OK to laugh with , the Popinjays have packed away their school recorders and become grander , more articulate and sexy than you 'd have ever guessed before . |