Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have [vb pp] for " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 5 | I was happier than I had felt for months . |
| 6 | The Arctic was everything I expected it to be , and much more in the way of high seas than I had bargained for . |
| 7 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 8 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's more than I 've got for Strasbourg , ’ he admitted . |
| 10 | I will feel a greater feeling of personal well being … a greater feeling of personal safety … and security … than I have felt for a long , long time . |
| 11 | ‘ I just concentrated on the job in hand and felt better than I have done for months . |
| 12 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 13 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 14 | That was more than she 'd done for Dane , she realised , feeling the first faint stirrings of doubt . |
| 15 | Oh Christ , she wanted to be fucked even more than she 'd hungered for the whip . |
| 16 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 17 | This was better than she had hoped for ! |
| 18 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
| 19 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 20 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
| 21 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 22 | This unpalatable circumstance could result in the very real possibility that Cassie would get a lower price for the cottage than she had paid for it , thus resulting in the disastrous situation of owing the Building Society money which she did not possess . |
| 23 | You had changed her mourning into joy , a joy much richer than she had wanted and much dearer and purer than she had looked for . |
| 24 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 25 | By week 4 , you should be feeling quite well , perhaps better than you have felt for some time and , with any luck , you will be a good deal nearer to your target weight . |
| 26 | But I shall be harder to budge than you have bargained for . " |
| 27 | Choose your entertainments wisely this evening , as you could spend a lot more than you have bargained for . |
| 28 | So there was only one helicopter instead of two , which meant less heliskiing than we had hoped for . |
| 29 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 30 | President Michael Ainslie noted ‘ a greater level of consignment activity than we have seen for some time . |