Example sentences of "than they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fording these cool inches gave momentary pleasure but they were no sooner down in the hot stagnant air of the valley bottoms than they imagined the more open hill-top ahead must bring relief . |
| 2 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 3 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 4 | A joint study by Keefe , Bruyette $ Woods , a stockbrokerage that specialises in bank shares , and Ernst $ Young , a firm of accountants , found that banks achieved an average 35% saving in costs when they joined forces ( admittedly less than they expected ) . |
| 5 | But while South Africa cruised home with a day to spare to go 1-0 up in the four-match series , it was more of a struggle than they expected after India began the fourth day at 71-6 , just eight runs ahead . |
| 6 | The money he gave them they had meant to use for the Greek trip but it was more than they expected and they had gone on a shopping , then a drinking , spree with it . |
| 7 | But Jim says his firm had to settle for less than they expected over work on the Minister 's home in Putney , south-west London . |
| 8 | Selling on is an attitude of mind , an attitude whereby you do your customers a favour by selling them more than they ask for , and often at a better price than they expected . |
| 9 | Maureen soon recovered and returned home , and letters came from Terry who seemed less downhearted than they expected . |
| 10 | Ten minutes later , Mr and Mrs Crumwallis , returning earlier than they expected from the wine and cheese do , heard even from their quarters the noise from the boarding section . |
| 11 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 12 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 13 | ‘ A large sale order can force the manager to move to a bid basis , but sellers wo n't know this in advance , so the effective spread becomes much wider than they expected , ’ he explained . |
| 14 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 15 | They reached the gate in even quicker time than they 'd left it . |
| 16 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 17 | Also , the stage was bigger than they 'd first thought . |
| 18 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 19 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 20 | Close up his eyes were even more luscious than they 'd looked on stage . |
| 21 | Legend has it that , during the obligatory pre-signing wine and dine sesh , The ‘ Weed boys insisted they share the food , as there was more on one plate than they 'd ever seen before . |
| 22 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 23 | Her eyes were less red than they 'd been , her skin less blotchy . |
| 24 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 25 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 26 | Unfortunately for the farmers , their lord and master thought they must be more prosperous than they 'd led him to believe , and he promptly put the rents back up . ’ |
| 27 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 28 | Spectators lining the route occasionally got closer to the action than they 'd anticipated . |
| 29 | These teenagers were in his experience a lot less tough than they looked . |
| 30 | They deserve better than they got on April 9 , 1992 . ’ |