Example sentences of "than [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had achieved what I came to Peru to do and , more than I could realise , this was to be the end of something . |
| 2 | The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone . |
| 3 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 4 | I would n't trust you further than I could throw you — though that 'd be a fair way , you 're flimsy enough . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't trust one of those bastards further than I could throw him . |
| 6 | And in no time at all , I did n't have to ask for jobs , I 'd got more than I could do , you know and er I was still , very well taken care of in the shop . |
| 7 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 8 | Yeah , no I could talk to her more than I could talk to him . |
| 9 | ‘ Being best man was more than I could hope for . |
| 10 | It was more than I could hope for . |
| 11 | I did n't want to go but I thought she deserved a better life than I could offer . |
| 12 | More in a year than I could earn from four novels . |
| 13 | It was almost more than I could stand . |
| 14 | It was more than I could stand , you know . |
| 15 | The agonies of reading one 's most intimate feelings and thoughts aloud to a roomful of strangers , and then being expected to talk about them and explain them in an acceptably relaxed and humorous manner were more than I could bear . |
| 16 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 17 | But it would have taken more courage than I could muster . |
| 18 | I like not your being in the Tower — it troubles me more than I could say ! ’ |
| 19 | This fact could not be concealed any more than I could conceal , when a friend invited me to stay with her during the holidays in Yorkshire , that my parents could n't afford the train fare . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't trust anyone , faced with Cropper 's cheque-book , not further than I could see . ’ |
| 21 | We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted . |
| 22 | There 's nothing wrong with a man living under an assumed name and besides that , I could n't prove that Mr Broadhurst and Samuel Northcliffe were one and the same , any more than I could prove that it was The Fat Controller who had killed the woman at the Theatre Royal with a spring-loaded hypodermic full of curare , rather than anyone else . |
| 23 | It was more than I could take . |
| 24 | I had problems at first , but I have had more help from your magazine than I could get from the instruction book especially with the Fair Isle necklines . |
| 25 | I could not have done these things any more than I could have killed my mother . |
| 26 | They raised the offer to a college exhibition , and much of my future — more than I could have guessed — was then determined . |
| 27 | I can safely claim that nobody at all can read what follows without learning something new about him , any more than I could have imagined , when I began preparing it , how much unrecorded information I would find . |
| 28 | Though it was easier than I could have hoped , my pride and self-pity would not admit it . |
| 29 | They came up with a far better deal than I could have got on my own . ’ |
| 30 | And the effects were more dramatic than I could have imagined . |