Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] than [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held Grimma in awe because of the way she shouted at the men and read better than anyone . |
| 2 | Lose a ride to one of your best friends , on the horse people had said you rode better than anyone else — that too was racing . |
| 3 | Gradually his playing became better than his singing . |
| 4 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 5 | The French charged sooner than we thought . |
| 6 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Last winter Jean-Philippe Ruggia trained harder than he 's ever done in his racing career . |
| 9 | He added , ‘ I paid top dollar , but it 's a good thing I did , because there were two other people who were after the plane and I just moved quicker than they did . ’ |
| 10 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 11 | To sailors starved of fresh produce it was the food value of this pea which attracted rather than its ornamental merit . |
| 12 | Merson , against my previous judgement , played better than I though he could ! |
| 13 | She said : ‘ I thought my father deserved better than what he got . |
| 14 | Certainly , it seemed to me , he deserved better than our little company … |
| 15 | Tufnell deserved better than his final return of one for 71 from 31 overs on his Test comeback after that worrying time in hospital with a burst appendix . |
| 16 | Faldo will never achieve the heights of Nicklaus ( will anyone ? ) , and he will probably never the win the affection of the golfing public , but he deserved better than you gave him . |
| 17 | We told the truth , the country deserved better than it got , and Labour would keep striving to create a country better in spirit and soul , he said , appealing for the party to retain in defeat the unity and vitality it showed in the campaign . |
| 18 | But for me you came sooner than you expected . |
| 19 | He drove further than he meant to . |
| 20 | I ca n't do that I tell you , I mean I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong it 's just that I was the last one back up and I got up there , still got a little bit of to do and they got more than they did |
| 21 | You got more than me ! |
| 22 | So you got more than we got then ! |
| 23 | He always got more than his share of sleeping time but was rarely caught between the sheets . |
| 24 | Did you both feel you got what you wanted , got more than you wanted , less than you wanted . |
| 25 | Yeah but I got more than you . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | For one thing , it paid better than she could believe , and for another the work seemed to be something she could really get her teeth into . |
| 28 | He came by taxi ( parking his car was always difficult in either place ) , arrived later than he intended , and was let in by Alison who had been crying . |
| 29 | Sometimes I thought that what was so outstanding was how he taught rather than what he taught , but then one realised that the two were inseparable in their effect , that this was the quality of the medium who spoke to each one of us who was present but who did not selfishly intervene . |
| 30 | By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did . |