Example sentences of "better than he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans 's news was better than he 'd ever hoped for . |
| 2 | He still shot a 68 , driving better than he 'd ever done before , using a club acquired from Eamonn Darcy only a month before . |
| 3 | The captain spoke few words , but agreed that the crew were better than he 'd hoped for , and that the ship was a fine one . |
| 4 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 5 | Perhaps this riding lark was a lot better than he had been anticipating . |
| 6 | Livio Marelli , who is in charge of making sense of the information , says the quality of the data is better than he had anticipated . |
| 7 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 8 | Maybe Myeloski was better than he had previously thought . |
| 9 | Both the drainage and the ventilation were better than he had been accustomed to . |
| 10 | She was much better than he had expected . |
| 11 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 12 | Eating his bacon and eggs , ‘ Sunny-side up , ’ Sally-Anne had once said when she put his plate before him , drinking his coffee — he preferred it to everlasting tea , he said — he looked much better than he had done the day before ; no midnight drinking , Sally-Anne thought . |
| 13 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 14 | I think I knew him better than he thought I did . ’ |
| 15 | We knew that better than he did , having researched the matter in books before the expedition , but saw no reason to be superstitious about it . |
| 16 | The rich-bitch hardly bothered him , he did not look at her , but the English one was better than he remembered . |
| 17 | In Canada , Niki narrowly lost out to Nelson Piquet and Prost trailed in third ; on Detroit 's bumpy street circuit , which Niki liked no better than he liked Monaco , Piquet scored a double . |