Example sentences of "than i would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , there was less blood than I would have imagined . ’ |
| 2 | And I did n't feel any more afraid , walking into the flats , than I would have felt walking on the road at night you know in in where I 'd been before . |
| 3 | ‘ That took much longer than I would have believed . ’ |
| 4 | This threat posed less of a distraction to the horses than I would have hoped . |
| 5 | The whole object looks more Byzantine than I would have guessed , an effect heightened by the pendants which hang from each side . |
| 6 | ‘ That is putting it rather more strongly than I would have done . |
| 7 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 8 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 9 | For longer , much longer than I would have dared , Laura held us all there , sustaining the kiln 's turbulent rage , then said quietly , ‘ Alex , take this glove . |
| 10 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 11 | They had drifted much farther than I would have thought possible . |
| 12 | Garry must be a much better lover than I would have thought him , or is it the legacy his godfather has left him that tempts you ? ’ |
| 13 | It finally bit me , twisting its neck more than I would have thought possible and catching my right index finger right on the knuckle . |
| 14 | But , being this near to the centre of town , has affected us much more than I would have thought . |
| 15 | Sophie said , ‘ The word seems to have gone round faster than I would have thought possible . |
| 16 | Erm , the conditions were erm slightly different on the second floor , in the sense that there were a few , few people and a few items of equipment erm , and there is a relatively great density of staff on the first floor than I would have found . |
| 17 | Well I certainly did n't find it any more dangerous living in the flats , than I would have found living in . |
| 18 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 19 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 20 | He took it like a man , which is better than I would have taken it . |
| 21 | He was less sympathetic than I would have expected , but I am sure that he will send her home if she is unwell . ’ |
| 22 | Miss LaMotte spoke more forcefully than I would have expected : she is surprisingly handsome when animated . |
| 23 | I find it boring , it 's not particularly useful — it 's very academic , more so than I would have expected it to be . |
| 24 | Emily was altogether more cheerful than I would have expected from her circumstances . |
| 25 | If the hon. Member for Fife , Central dislikes the idea of reviews , it suggests that his attitude to public expenditure is less rigorous than I would have expected . |