Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Much nicer than I expected from the particulars , ’ she added . |
| 2 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 3 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 4 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 5 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 6 | I gained infinitely more than I lost from the experience . |
| 7 | ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 9 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've learnt to do that much better than I did as an amateur . |
| 11 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 12 | My first machine cost £22 , which was just slightly less than I earned in a month at the office . |
| 13 | Who better than she knew of the transience of power ? |
| 14 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 15 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 16 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 17 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 18 | She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn . |
| 19 | Judi looked better than she had in the morgue . |
| 20 | She had spent more than she intended on the wetsuit , but could n't resist its bright fuchsia colours . |
| 21 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 22 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 23 | She says she feel better now than she did before the accident . |
| 24 | Thackeray rather irritably described the view after an undignified scramble to the top ‘ … no better … than you beheld from the bottom ; only a little more river , and sand , and ricefield ’ . |
| 25 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 26 | Sisters and brothers let's continue to work and campaign and together to create a Europe with a future , rather than one locked in the past . |
| 27 | ‘ In my observation , a body set up by government is more likely to face pressure than one established by an industry . ’ |
| 28 | There 's no more perfect strawberry than one soaked in a mix of lemon juice and a little sugar . |
| 29 | After the visit Avice said that " finding a solution will take longer than we thought at the end of last year " . |
| 30 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |