Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [pron] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The record of de Gaulle 's provisional government was a mixed one , in a sense both more creditable and less creditable than he himself suggested . |
| 2 | Mr Hart-Davis wrote later : ‘ With needling stabs and twists , she implies Freya 's journeys were less impressive than she herself made out , that she falsified details of her past , and ruthlessly used friends to run errands . |
| 3 | Watching him now , as he shepherded parents in from the garden for the start of the pageant , listening to his deep , authoritative voice , he seemed , to Robert , more English than he himself could ever be . |
| 4 | But we know now that that 's not true : that there are many unconscious and subconscious mental processes which we ca n't just introspect , and that our mental life is far more complicated than we ourselves are ever aware of at the time . |
| 5 | Not everyone wants to teach , and with the very rapid advances in treatment the ward sister may sometimes have an uneasy feeling that the student is more up-to-date than she herself . |
| 6 | But even if he was more original than he himself claims , he was only producing one of many variations on a Greek scheme . |