Example sentences of "than i [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 2 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 3 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 4 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 5 | Hopeless , I walked towards the nearest town , which was further away than I cared to think about . |
| 6 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 7 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 8 | I was happier than I had felt for months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For two weeks afterwards I cried more than I had done in my whole life . |
| 11 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 12 | The Arctic was everything I expected it to be , and much more in the way of high seas than I had bargained for . |
| 13 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 14 | I had laughed at him more than I had laughed at Ahmed . |
| 15 | Ronnie 's news , I found , had given me a good deal more confidence in Fringe than I had had on Drifter , illogical though it might be . |
| 16 | Formation flying on the photographic Aztec was easier than I had expected considering the airframe 's sleekness and the early jet engines ' reputation for poor acceleration . |
| 17 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 18 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 19 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |