Example sentences of "than [pron] had for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 2 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 3 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 4 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 5 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 6 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 7 | And , in spite of it , he felt closer to her than he had for months . |
| 8 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |