Example sentences of "than i do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 2 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |
| 3 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 4 | erm I 'd like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than I do at the moment I tend to get lost in what 's in front of me . |
| 5 | ‘ It is n't just long steady runs — in fact I did n't do any more plodding about before Twin Cities than I do for my 10,000m training . |
| 6 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |
| 7 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 8 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 9 | It 's the people , I mean the people in this room know a great deal more people than I do on my own for example . |
| 10 | Someone once said he 'd have known me anywhere by the voice but he 'd have passed me by in the street on account I look much better in person than I do on the telly . |
| 11 | Now to me I sound a lot different than I do on tape . |
| 12 | For example , I share a greater proportion of my genes with my sister than I do with my cousin . |
| 13 | No , when it comes to resurrections , I believe in the defibrillator and that 's about it ; which means I have less trouble with Frankenstein than I do with say , Lazarus , to cite one of Pa 's favourite yarns . |
| 14 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 15 | I feel more in common with the Reverend William Paley than I do with the distinguished modern philosopher , a well-known atheist , with whom I once discussed the matter at dinner . |
| 16 | They seem to say I spend more time with reptiles than I do with them or some people are very scared so they do n't tend to come around . |
| 17 | Other readers may respond more positively than I do to these over-leisurely presumptions on their interest . |
| 18 | Despite the intelligent coupling , this set can not be recommended except to those who respond more positively than I do to Giulini 's rather limp direction ( ) |
| 19 | I actually feel more at home in Britain and in the States and France than I do in the North . |
| 20 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 21 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 22 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 23 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 24 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 25 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 26 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 27 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've learnt to do that much better than I did as an amateur . |
| 29 | ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes . |
| 30 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |