Example sentences of "[adv] than i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better than I 've ever done ! ’ |
| 2 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 4 | Better than I had on my twenty-first . ’ |
| 5 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 6 | Susan had known Hilda better than I had . |
| 7 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 8 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 9 | For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike . |
| 10 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 11 | I feel more tied down than I 've ever been before . |
| 12 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 13 | more deftly than I had flesh , |
| 14 | Moreover , since the speaker chose to say my uncle rather than I have an uncle and he … , we must assume she did n't feel the need to assert the information . |
| 15 | It may have disappointed the fearless patriot , Mickey Spillane , who wrote these lines for his detective , Mike Hammer , in One Lonely Night ( 1951 — sales three million ) : ‘ I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands . |
| 16 | ‘ If that 's the case I 'll stay out longer than I 'd planned , and do you a favour ! ’ |
| 17 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 18 | Unlike the other actors — they 'd been in the business much longer than I had — I had no idea what work I could get . |
| 19 | The other two had evidently been in hospital longer than I had , and they were like children let out of school , peering through the unblacked-out part of the window at the bright lights in the shops and rejoicing that they would be home for Christmas . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm tired , yes , but I was n't prepared to leave you labouring under your misapprehensions any longer than I had to … ’ |
| 21 | I have stuck with Esquire longer than I have stuck with any other men 's magazine and I feel that the magazine is now getting very close to achieving the ideal balance of content and format . |
| 22 | But I 'm not remaining in your debt one second longer than I have to . |
| 23 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 24 | I 've no intention of staying over there longer than I have to , and Sorrel 's away for the weekend herself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Jones , I 'm honoured that you should choose me , but I do feel there are others far more suited to take on the responsibility , people who 've worked in radio far longer than I have . ’ |
| 26 | You realise they 've all been at it a lot longer than I have . |
| 27 | Aiming to cross into Austria at Gmünd , I came on the border post sooner than I had expected and , misreading the signs , drove past the guard-post to the frontier barrier . |
| 28 | But the bright eyes of danger beckoned again , and sooner than I had expected . |
| 29 | " Sooner than I 'd meant it to , " Sara said a little ruefully . |
| 30 | Actually the day Passed more quickly than I had expected . |