Example sentences of "than [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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1 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
2 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
3 | Than them on on their own . |
4 | If the hon. Gentleman goes to France — a country he seems to admire more than ours — he will find that it has introduced a price formula that is far less tough than ours on BT because it knows that its nationalised industry would find it difficult to match the performance of BT . |
5 | There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |