Example sentences of "than [pers pn] had [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | More diamonds than she had ever seen in her life . |
| 4 | Maria had been feeling more vulnerable than she had ever done in her life , but now she lost her temper . |
| 5 | His eyes bore more seriousness than she had ever read in them . |
| 6 | That week Hannah and I worked harder than we had ever worked in our lives before , but at last all was ready . |
| 7 | But the dog smelt the man 's fear , and turned and ran away from him faster than it had ever run in its life . |
| 8 | Poor Harry , so incongruously yoked in the forced democracy of death , whose stiffening body would receive far more attention in its dissolution than it had ever received in life . |
| 9 | The new season again brought some work on opera-ballet , with a new production of Die Fledermaus at Sadler 's Wells on 10 January 1949 giving a bigger opportunity than he had yet enjoyed in that genre . |
| 10 | He was embarrassed more than he had ever felt in public before . |
| 11 | Little Billy ran faster than he had ever run in his life before . |
| 12 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 13 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 14 | Between March and June 1984 , he worked harder than he had ever worked in his life . |