Example sentences of "[adv] than they had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted my friends to know me better than they had before . |
| 2 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 3 | They were nearer tonight than they had ever been . |
| 4 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
| 5 | He went on to repeat the Prime Minister 's bland assurance that , far from experiencing poverty , most students were better off than they had ever been before . |
| 6 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 7 | When he had been in work he had eaten at 6 o'clock when he got home , but now they ate much later than they had ever done . |
| 8 | Richard and Beth were hers at last , the family she had been cruelly denied ; because of love , and guilt and shame , they were closer now than they had ever been . |