Example sentences of "than he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 2 | ‘ So long as he ( McCoist ) scores one more than he got in Bruges , I 'll be happy , ’ remarked the manager of the goal machine that stalled two weeks ago . |
| 3 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 4 | He is also highly intelligent and far more complex than he likes to be perceived . |
| 5 | He did n't belong in gardens , any more than he belonged in the company of two small children . |
| 6 | SHAW Branch Manager John Powell had to pay up quicker than he expected after promising his staff an expenses-paid outing if they achieved their Royal Scottish leads target . |
| 7 | Satan , visualized as a great fish seeing his enemy in such distress , swoops to devour but gets more than he bargains for . |
| 8 | He sounded more matter of fact and tired than he had during their last contact . |
| 9 | He had loaned five thousand pounds to Phillip Wreck , one of the most notorious villains in Paddington , and in Joe 's mind Michael had more chance of getting the Pope 's inside leg measurement than he had of getting that money back . |
| 10 | He still owed her a fiver more than he had on him , she complained . |
| 11 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 12 | In the ordinary daylight Adam looked fiercer , wilder , than he had on Starr Hills . |
| 13 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 14 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 15 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 16 | Cowslip showed no more concern at Fiver 's tense manner than he had at anything that had gone before . |
| 17 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 18 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 19 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 20 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 21 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 22 | We knew that Frank got on better with us than he had with his fellow countrymen and hoped that being with us would help bring him back to himself . |
| 23 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 24 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 25 | And , in spite of it , he felt closer to her than he had for months . |
| 26 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |
| 27 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 28 | He had n't thought further than that and he did n't want to worry Lucy more than he had to . |
| 29 | And when they were espoused the King did them great honour , and gave them many noble gifts , and added to Rodrigo 's lands more than he had till then possessed : and he loved him greatly in his heart , because he saw that he was obedient to his commands , and for all that he had heard him say . |
| 30 | He looked younger close-up than he had from a distance . |