Example sentences of "[adv] than [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in her full , sad , serious voice , ‘ Perhaps I shall regret it , more perhaps than you will ever know , you foolish girl . |
| 2 | This is why it is so important to have soul-friends , who sometimes know us better than we can ever know ourselves . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh remembered her whispered confidence to Theresa in the car , the child 's intent face and brief transforming smile , and thought that she understood one child at least far better than she would probably claim . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ The rig was in about six feet of water , much deeper than she would normally go . |
| 5 | It hurt Emmie less than it would once have done . |
| 6 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 7 | Heilen trout are , in my opinion , some of the most beautiful wild brown trout in Scotland and they fight more furiously than you can ever imagine . |
| 8 | For example , the insistence of planning authorities upon the use of certain building materials , the standards of design and external finish and the density of housing development reflect their traditional concern with how a house or a village looks rather than who will actually live in it . |
| 9 | c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . |
| 10 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 11 | And , by the end of her life , her long sight had grown longer than anyone could possibly have expected . |
| 12 | ‘ All the evidence points to the fact that if people get the right advice at the right time , creditors are more likely to get what is owed to them , even though it may take longer than it would originally have done . |
| 13 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |
| 14 | The most efficient recyclers would thus have an incentive to go further than they would otherwise do . |
| 15 | His memory goes back further than I could possibly hope to remember . |
| 16 | The brief moral drawn at the end of the original French version of this tale is that he who trusts his wife more than himself will frequently regret it . |
| 17 | Doing far more than we can reasonably do and if you like , doing it by very definition , badly , or worse than it could have done . |
| 18 | And he offers provision far more than we can ever expect . |
| 19 | And you know , as we come and submit ourselves to God , and as we look back , whether it 's back on a day , on a week , on a month , on year , on a lifetime , he has given to us far , far more than we could ever have asked or expected from him ! , as the apostle said , he is able to do abundantly above all that we can ask or think ! |
| 20 | During her years in Helmsley , she had missed life on the farm more than she would ever have thought possible . |
| 21 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
| 22 | What he was saying hurt Shiona more than she could ever have believed possible . |
| 23 | He loved it more than anything , more than he loved me , more than he could ever love a child … |
| 24 | ‘ Twenty , but I 've lived more than you 'll ever live . ’ |
| 25 | You achieved more than you will ever realize . |
| 26 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 27 | However much the buyer may complain , he acted voluntarily : he is better off than he would otherwise have been . |
| 28 | This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them . |
| 29 | If so , she had prepared for the event more thoroughly than he could ever have imagined . |
| 30 | He moved more heavily and slowly so that often they had to pause to allow him to keep up , and they rested for his sake more often than they would otherwise have done . |