Example sentences of "and [adj] than [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 2 | It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed … |
| 3 | The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before . |
| 4 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 5 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 6 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 7 | This was the death that had reduced Mrs Browning to a grief more overt and terrible than she had ever shown before and all around her there were faces nearly as stricken and voices almost as crazed . |
| 8 | She stared back at him , more vacant and stupid than he had ever seen her . |
| 9 | In spite of depressing circumstances , I was more excited and confident than I had ever been . |
| 10 | Another year older , another year wiser , Nigel Mansell reckons he 's leaner and meaner than he 's ever been . |
| 11 | He felt hurt and angry and older than he 'd ever felt in his life before . |
| 12 | Nominating procedures were now more open and participatory than they had ever been before . |
| 13 | ‘ I went into the fight against Nardiello sharper and stronger than I had ever been before . ’ |