Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun pl] than [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | my wellies are too big for you , I 've got much bigger feet than you 've got have n't I ? , look you just compare |
| 2 | In fourteen years the Northern Region alone has lost over two hundred thousand manufacturing jobs and when a fella visiting us today says that we 're all workers , I remember telling me that , that we di might eat all out the same trough , but by the hell they have bigger spoons than we have . |
| 3 | ‘ Plenty of much bigger bastards than you have been made captain , ’ Kimberly said . |
| 4 | Yet bigger men than them have learned to their cost that no one can behave like that . |
| 5 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 6 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 7 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 8 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |
| 9 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 10 | ‘ Better men than he have broken their teeth trying . ’ |
| 11 | By carefully planning , we are seeking to achieve better results than we have managed before and better results than those of competitors . |
| 12 | Why tolerate the misery of unemployed people when , if given jobs on works of improvement , it would make a Britain with better services than it has at present ? |
| 13 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 14 | And they lived in in smaller houses than we 'd got . |
| 15 | Marriages — take it from us — survive worse catastrophes than they 've experienced . |
| 16 | It will help policemen and insurance assessors to extract sensible evidence from befuddled witnesses , tease effective instructions out of skilled but inarticulate craftsmen , and trick unwary criminals into much completer confessions than they had intended . |
| 17 | They always have some excuse , but Russia has far worse facilities than we have and how many players have they got in the top fifty ; three men and three women ? |
| 18 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 19 | However , others saw in it greater advantages than we had and were keen to invest . |
| 20 | I began to think that Herbert must have greater expectations than I had . |