Example sentences of "than he [verb] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad was plumper than he 'd ever been . |
| 2 | Despite being more nervous than he 'd ever been in his life he hit a 3-iron from the edge of the fairway bunker to within 20 feet of the flag . |
| 3 | ‘ Dad was fitter than he had ever been . |
| 4 | DeVore watched Berdichev move among the men gathered there in the garden room , more at ease now than he had ever been ; saw too how they looked to him now as a leader , a shaper of events , and noted with irony how different that was from how they had formerly behaved . |
| 5 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 6 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 7 | It was on the tip of his tongue to observe that Burun was no more or less trustworthy than he had ever been , but he realised suddenly that he would be stating the obvious . |
| 8 | He never said anything , but I knew that he knew , because he was nicer to me than he had ever been before . |
| 9 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 10 | The threats to children to silence colleagues who , far braver than he had ever been , asked the uncomfortable question , or asked any question at all . |
| 11 | Ken was busier now than he had ever been before . |
| 12 | It may well be that Wilfrid was no more acceptable to Ecgfrith than he had originally been to Oswiu . |
| 13 | ‘ Absolutely worse than he 's ever been . ’ |
| 14 | Another year older , another year wiser , Nigel Mansell reckons he 's leaner and meaner than he 's ever been . |