Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had done [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
| 2 | For two weeks afterwards I cried more than I had done in my whole life . |
| 3 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
| 4 | They cried a lot , and Jesie Smith , appearing in the kitchen more than she had done in recent months , not only cried but wailed , nearly always when Joe was within earshot , and the substance of her wailing was , ‘ Left without a breadwinner , ’ which nearly always elicited , ‘ Oh ! |
| 5 | She insisted on sharing it with Annunziata , who looked even more gaunt than she had done before the news of her son 's survival , and then got up . |
| 6 | She smoked more than she had done before too lighting a cigarette with real hunger when they came out into the sunlight . |
| 7 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 8 | Our panel gave more weight to unemployment throughout the final campaign than they had done in the Pre-Campaign wave . |
| 9 | The inhabitants of Goritskaia volost' near Tver received fewer letters towards the end of 1926 than they had done in 1913 . |
| 10 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 11 | The church actually lost yet more ground under Edward II than it had done under his father . |
| 12 | Passionate homesickness rose and buffeted his harder than it had done for months . |
| 13 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 14 | On the other side of the trade ledger , the booming domestic economy drew in 15% more imports last year than it had done in 1989 . |
| 15 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 16 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 17 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 18 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 19 | Damaged by the Gulf crisis and still without having achieved electoral reform , Kaifu 's position by the end of 1990 looked considerably less secure than it had done in the immediate aftermath of the February elections . |
| 20 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 21 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 22 | He mixed socially much less with Royal College students than he had done at Camberwell . |
| 23 | Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far . |
| 24 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 25 | Close to , he looked less mad than he had done for ages ; just drawn , pale , weary . |
| 26 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 27 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 28 | The man claimed to have learnt self-control , temperance , and forbearance from his observations , and to have ‘ profited more to rule his passions in the rest of his life , than he had done by any thing that he had heard , or read before ’ . |
| 29 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 30 | Alex Macdonald , the hard-nosed manager of Airdrie , refused to apologise for his team 's performance in a midweek match against Hibs in Edinburgh any more than he had done after that bewildering semi-final against Hearts at Hampden . |