Example sentences of "[noun] than i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nana 's better at the words than I am I forget them ! |
| 2 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 3 | Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as . |
| 4 | I never expect to be more moved by a man and a horse than I was by Winter and Mandarin this afternoon . |
| 5 | And the Aussie beamed : ‘ Leigh are a lot better side than I thought and there is a great deal more football in the team than I was led to believe . ’ |
| 6 | I was congratulating myself on my fitness when I passed a middle-aged German couple climbing up — with a good deal more spring in their steps than me . |
| 7 | I affected more fear than I felt . |
| 8 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 9 | In the present instance however , ( the poems of a certain Mrs. Leapor excepted , who published some 40 years ago ) I discern , I think , more marks of a true poetical talent than I remember to have observed in the verses of any , whether male or female , so disadvantageously circumstanced . |
| 10 | Anyway , there was less blood than I would have imagined . ’ |
| 11 | There was less blood than I thought . |
| 12 | ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes . |
| 13 | They came up with a far better deal than I could have got on my own . ’ |
| 14 | I know a lot more about cars than I have , I , I never used to know nothing about cars but |
| 15 | You got longer legs than me . ’ |
| 16 | We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted . |
| 17 | Garry must be a much better lover than I would have thought him , or is it the legacy his godfather has left him that tempts you ? ’ |
| 18 | I have found much more concern with status in industry than I expected — it 's just not so easy to identify for a newcomer . |
| 19 | Either you are a worse poet than I , in which case I 'm bored — or you 're better , when I 'm jealous ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I must be a better actress than I imagined ! |
| 21 | ‘ You 're a much better actress than I 'd ever have given you credit for , Aurora . |
| 22 | ‘ I felt less nervous in the play-off against Faldo than I have here . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd rather you risk your neck than me , but if it 's a question of time you 're justified ; it would take you two good hours and more to work your way about . ’ |
| 24 | He made a lot of hi-tech guitars and he kept trying to sell me one , but there was something very sterile about them to me ; they had more gadgets than I needed . |
| 25 | But I am afraid it would require a deeper understanding of the chemistry of proteins than I possess to explain how the energy of the ATP is harnessed to the active transport of salts and other substances . |
| 26 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
| 27 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 28 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 29 | And I was fortunate in that I had friends — musical and artistic — who knew so much more about these subjects than I did , and enjoyed sharing their knowledge with me . |
| 30 | This summer , I visited the Art Materials Exhibition and , to my surprise , I learnt more from watching paintings in action than I could ever have learnt from the so-called Teach Yourself books . |