Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adj] than [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 2 | Hereford put up a great fight … they really went for it last night and deserved more than they got … in centre forward Chris Pike they have a new goal hero … |
| 3 | Hereford put up a great fight … they really went for it last night and deserved more than they got … in centre forward Chris Pike they have a new goal hero … |
| 4 | ‘ I just concentrated on the job in hand and felt better than I have done for months . |
| 5 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |