Example sentences of "than he [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to her now just how little she knew about him — much less than he knew about her life , which was to a great extent an open book , despite his determination to believe she had a dark side . |
| 2 | I have had more submissions than he said about South Ayrshire , but mostly they were tear-out strips from newspapers and from people who had been — |
| 3 | Her point in life was to solve Jack Butler 's problems ; when they persisted , she felt worse than he did about it . |
| 4 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 5 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 6 | The Ambassador gave a diagonal nod of the head , as if it were slightly impertinent to know more than he did about local matters . |