Example sentences of "[adj] than he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 2 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 3 | There were times during his illness , he told me , when he was happier than he 'd been since he was a child . |
| 4 | Leslie was happier than he had been since joining the army . |
| 5 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 6 | LORTON WAS HAPPIER than he had been since Arabella died . |
| 7 | He was taken aback , and more confused than he 'd been a moment ago . |
| 8 | Perhaps this riding lark was a lot better than he had been anticipating . |
| 9 | Both the drainage and the ventilation were better than he had been accustomed to . |
| 10 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |
| 11 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 12 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 13 | Julius seemed a lot less equable than he had been earlier . |
| 14 | In no time at all , he was faster than he had been in practice , something I have never seen since in a race by a leading driver . |
| 15 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 16 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 17 | The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat . |
| 18 | It was n't just that she had grown older and softer or that they were harder than he had been . |
| 19 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 20 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
| 21 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |