Example sentences of "than he [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Satan , visualized as a great fish seeing his enemy in such distress , swoops to devour but gets more than he bargains for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And , in spite of it , he felt closer to her than he had for months . |
| 5 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |
| 6 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 7 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 8 | He found he had taken on more than he bargained for . |
| 9 | The American , or English , renegade in command , Stephen Manhant , got more than he bargained for . |
| 10 | The appalling summer weather meant Duncan had more to cope with than he bargained for — cold water , a swollen river and a lot of fallen branches , leaves and other debris . |
| 11 | CAMERAMAN Sean Colborn got more than he bargained for at a police auction — he bought a do-it-yourself BURGLARY kit . |
| 12 | He got more than he bargained for . ’ |
| 13 | Mick Papp got more than he bargained for when he stopped at Strathford 's garage in East Kilbride a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | ( But see Murphy v Culhane [ 1977 ] QB 94 for a case involving a criminal affray where the plaintiff got more than he bargained for and it was stated that the defence could apply . ) |
| 15 | Considerable care must be taken to ensure that the precise nature and scope of these liabilities is identified and that the purchaser does not acquire more than he bargained for . |
| 16 | One of them grabbed his pension book ; but the mugger got more than he bargained for , as Mr Cox tripped him up with his walking stick . |
| 17 | Louis Untermeyer , Robert Frost 's correspondent who was to be an influential anthologist , wrote of Poems ( The Freeman , 30 June 1920 ) that ‘ Eliot cares more for his art than he does for his attitudes ’ ; and that ‘ the exaltation which is the very breath of poetry — that combination of tenderness and toughness — is scarcely ever present in Eliot 's lines ’ . |
| 18 | Anybody who " ramps " or causes " ramping " of USM stocks in this way cares more for the profits on his own transaction profits possibly running into thousands of pounds than he does for those of his clients . |
| 19 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 20 | Yesterday the shares fell to 124p , 16p less than he paid for them . |
| 21 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 22 | ‘ Which is very little more than he paid for it . |
| 23 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 24 | But his bank wants their money back ; the business will be sold for less than he paid for it , and Peter will be left with debts running into six figures |
| 25 | He has done more theological ‘ homework ’ here than he did for some of his own religious books , and it shows , even though learning was never more lightly worn . |
| 26 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |