Example sentences of "[adv] than [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 2 | ‘ Better than I 've ever done ! ’ |
| 3 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 4 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 5 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 6 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
| 7 | He knew Marek — more intimately than she had ever imagined . |
| 8 | However , thanks partly to the arrival of the sound film , this small measure was to change the nature of the British film industry in ways that could hardly have been foreseen by the legislators , and enable it to ‘ project England ’ more effectively than it had ever done before . |
| 9 | We guarantee you will sleep more soundly , more peacefully , more comfortably than you 've ever done before . |
| 10 | She had spoken more warmly to him tonight than she had ever done when she was unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she liked . |
| 11 | Once the work was finished , much sooner than he 'd ever dared hope , Penry was left without occupation . |
| 12 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 13 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 14 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 15 | There was a good , steady wage , and a proper job was more than she had ever hoped for when she 'd first noticed the advertisement written in felt-tip in the corner of one of the windows . |
| 16 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
| 17 | Yes , she misses her mum and dad , and she misses the golden stretches of beach more than she has ever let on . |
| 18 | Canals were everywhere , criss-crossing each other , more than he had ever seen . |
| 19 | The intensity was more than he had ever felt before . |
| 20 | He was embarrassed more than he had ever felt in public before . |
| 21 | Dorian turned and stared at the face in the picture , and suddenly he hated Basil more than he had ever hated anyone in his life . |
| 22 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 23 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 24 | ‘ I want you more than I 've ever wanted anything in my life . |
| 25 | I love you more than I 've ever loved anyone and I 'll never love anyone so much again . |
| 26 | ‘ You have offered me more than anyone has ever done before , ’ she said . |
| 27 | We worked harder than we 'd ever worked in our lives . |
| 28 | That week Hannah and I worked harder than we had ever worked in our lives before , but at last all was ready . |
| 29 | ‘ And I 've worked harder than I 've ever worked to complete that goal . |
| 30 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |