Example sentences of "than [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own muvver swears worse than me farvver when she gets upset , an' 'e 's a docker . |
| 2 | Well , about , I do n't know how long ago but we were stuck under the table for some time and er eventually we could hear this whirring noise like , you know and er I , I was a bit more daring than me brothers and I sneaked out and went out to the backdoor , an and looked up and there I could see this er Zeppelin in the sky , you know ! |
| 3 | You 'll know more about it than me John , but er , I just think that David Lawrence er from the pavilion end is click this morning he 's bowled some very , very quick deliveries we 've been saying all along that this is a very docile pitch now and a good batting service er , er against the , but there 's been some quick deliveries this morning . |
| 4 | Radio waves are used rather than em waves of other wavelengths because over suitable wavelength ranges they readily penetrate planetary atmospheres and because natural emissions at such wavelengths tend to be weak thus enabling the echoes to be readily picked out from the natural background . |
| 5 | In the second session Prost improved and Damon ran into brake problems which left him doing very few laps , none of which was faster than his Friday effort . |
| 6 | Ought to know my bark 's worse than my bite . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a lot easier to see what went wrong with my business than my marriage : books make more sense than people . |
| 8 | ‘ The truth is , no one was further from my mind at the time than my god . |
| 9 | This lot are no more capable of making a proper MTV-approved rock vid than my cat , despite the brave attempt of ‘ Under The Bridge ’ . |
| 10 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 11 | My editor , Sally O'Sullivan , was the first person to ask me to write anything other than my name on an Access receipt , and I would have followed her to World 's End . |
| 12 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 13 | Yet he looked much worse than my Hope girl at this same stage , probably owing to the shock of his accident . |
| 14 | I became maudlin , drinking more rich claret than my chaplain would like to imagine . |
| 15 | Indeed , one old lady of 94 was interviewed on television and she proudly told the presenter ‘ I can now walk faster than my daughter — and she 's only 72 ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're only two years older than my daughter . |
| 17 | Resentment flashed into her eyes as she said in a pained voice , ‘ If ever the time does come , I hope I 'll be wanted for more than my ability with figures . ’ |
| 18 | Because the world is wider than my thought |
| 19 | It 's better than my scribble . |
| 20 | Younger than my toy boy . |
| 21 | Mr Lal 's English was even less fluent than my Hindi , so we chatted , ungrammatically , in his tongue . |
| 22 | I know you found your tent , but perhaps you thought this might be a more comfortable bivouac than my cottage ? |
| 23 | That was not a criticism of the redecoration scheme , any more than my remarks are a criticism of some of the Government initiatives . |
| 24 | Weller , at No 21 with Uh Huh , Oh Yeh , — his first major hit in four years — says : ‘ People have probably known more about my politics than my music . |
| 25 | However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her . |
| 26 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 27 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 28 | Good twenty years older than my Grandmother , right . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's more than my life 's worth . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I love you more than my life ! ’ |