Example sentences of "than [pron] had [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 2 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 3 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 4 | Judi looked better than she had in the morgue . |
| 5 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 6 | She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn . |
| 7 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 8 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 9 | ‘ I know people have a different attitude to things now than we had before the war , but you and Chris are still the same sort of people . |
| 10 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 11 | ‘ Ferguson will give us more threat up front than we had in the cup tie , when our performance , particularly in the second half , was shocking . ’ |
| 12 | Most likely they would proceed no further than they had with the identification of ‘ Subject A ’ , especially since there was no one ( apart from themselves ) to miss her and she had never been missed . |
| 13 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 14 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that general practitioners , whether fund-holders or not , as a result of the new contract — which initially was often bitterly opposed — are now giving patients a much better service than they had in the past ? |
| 16 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 17 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 18 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 19 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 20 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 22 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 23 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 24 | Outside , Gazzer looked even worse than he had in the tunnels : his face was haggard , haunted by his memories of last night , his fears for Bella , and his desperate need to make Marie believe him . |
| 25 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 26 | The silence continued to fall Creggan watched Woil who looked smaller on the litter bin out in the great free world than he had in the cage . |
| 27 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |