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Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He had planned the whole scheme and ought to have a better idea than me of what was going to happen .
2	some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life .
3	no one was more surprised than me to be
4	Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened .
5	So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor .
6	If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult .
7	There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life .
8	They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves .
9	‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that .
10	Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’
11	They are better than me at some things .
12	He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’
13	I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population .
14	I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population .
15	I say gel but she was a year older than me at least .
16	I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older .
17	He 'd be faster than me at long distance , by a long way .
18	I can tell you something , Alex is a lot better than me at it .
19	Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others .
20	But they seem more alive than me in here .
21	Not really , it does n't annoy me but I know there are some like women older than me in in my office that know they 're not gon na get anywhere because it 's all men .
22	Most importantly there will be one person affected more than me in the year ahead .
23	‘ In terms of general plant , Piper was bigger than us , while we were larger than them as crane operators , ’ he said .
24	I am better than them at other things .
25	But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game .
26	Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) .
27	They play good football but we were better than them on the day .
28	Than them on on their own .
29	They 're quite good it looks better than them for office do n't it ? they 're dual power battery and solar
30	They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect .