Example sentences of "[adj] than i can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , it right , erm , nought point five three , you 're obviously going to do these quicker than I can write them down , so you can write them down . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had more of this than I can take . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm very upset about Francis … more upset than I can say . ’ |
| 4 | The lakes were at their lowest levels for 20 years , and Chew was lower than I can ever remember . |
| 5 | And that 's why I think it 's very important that erm the City Council , for example , has a Women 's Committee and Ann , obviously , will be able to talk much more about that than I can . |
| 6 | He could judge that better than I can . |
| 7 | Thorfinn said , ‘ It deserves better than I can give it . |
| 8 | Cups and saucers on , well you can do that , look you can do that better than I can . |
| 9 | Go on , you can do those better than I can . |
| 10 | Well they 're selling them cheaper than I can supply my customers . |
| 11 | He confessed frankly that he was ‘ overcome by a je ne sais quoi of discouragement and despair more than I can tell . ’ |
| 12 | We all ended up happy , anyway , which is more than I can say for most marriages . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not putting money in the pocket of the bloody Hamiltons more than I can help . |
| 14 | I 'm beginning to wonder if I 've bitten off more than I can chew . ’ |
| 15 | The reasons behind thousands upon thousands of black kids immersing themselves in sport may stem from basic inequalities which I find unacceptable , and , indeed , immoral , but I can not affirm that sport is some device for the perpetuation of these inequalities any more than I can agree with some critics , such as Paul Hoch , that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination designed to slough off energies or divert them into meaningless channels ( 1972 ) . |
| 16 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 17 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for the rest of this wretched world . ’ |
| 18 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 19 | But why he seems to think we should want to have anything to do with him and his fancy talk — that 's more than I can imagine . |
| 20 | Help me , or it will be more than I can do . " |
| 21 | which is more than I can say for the inflatable . |
| 22 | But one more day is more than I can bear — |
| 23 | ‘ But we 've tried and Maureen ca n't bear to finish any more than I can . |
| 24 | That is more than I can say about the Liberal Democrats , who seem to be headed for their own Westminster bunker en masse , or for Robin Cook , Clare Short , John Prescott or Chris Smith — all of whose views I would in normal times respect and follow with interest . |
| 25 | It 's more than I can get from any other job in Oklahoma . |
| 26 | ‘ More than I can afford , ’ he admitted . |
| 27 | ‘ Which is more than I can say about you ! ’ |
| 28 | Well , I do n't want your sympathy , and I do n't want you as a sister — I already have more than I can handle in that department , thank you . ’ |
| 29 | You ca n't know that any more than I can ever know what it 's like giving birth to a child . |
| 30 | I said , But I wo n't pay more than I can afford to pay for it . |