Example sentences of "than i did " in BNC.
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| 1 | You managed two more than I did . ’ |
| 2 | I feel at ease — much better than I did then . ’ |
| 3 | It was n't so much as how to achieve a new social order , but how can I ensure that my son or daughter gets a better job than I did . |
| 4 | It was n't so much as how to achieve a new social order , but how can I ensure that my son or daughter gets a better job than I did . |
| 5 | But I feel even more optimistic about the future of our world now than I did then . |
| 6 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 7 | I was vaguely aware that the dance floor had cleared like morning mist and also acutely conscious that Nolan knew volumes more about bare-knuckle fisticuffs than I did . |
| 8 | Alex talked to him more than I did . |
| 9 | At the Brixton Academy one stated : ‘ Last night , there ca n't have been two hundred people at the gig and I sold twice as many burgers and hot dogs than I did today . |
| 10 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 11 | I think she took it more seriously than I did . |
| 12 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 13 | But George was a born Canadian and knew no more about China than I did ; he shared with me the wish and determination to visit China , which seemed to us to be a land of fabulous culture . |
| 14 | I moved away from the bus post , they needed the support more than I did . |
| 15 | Well , they thought they were superior because their trade was classified Grade I and Met was only Grade 2 , so they got paid more than I did and considered they were a cut above me in every way . |
| 16 | A lot of girls compromised themselves a great deal more than I did . ’ |
| 17 | In fact he got more out of it than I did , I think . |
| 18 | It knew better than I did what to do . |
| 19 | She managed this better than I did , presumably having had practice and certainly having the advantage of knowing in advance that she stuck out about eighteen inches in front of where she ought to have been . |
| 20 | I now feel I understand people much more now than I did before . |
| 21 | You did n't like it any more than I did . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've learnt to do that much better than I did as an amateur . |
| 23 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , when I 'm listening to the drummer I 'm listening much more to the bass drum than I did before , because that 's what I have to play with . ’ |
| 25 | I think I also write better bass lines than I did before , because when I 'm writing with my sequencers and things I can think ‘ bass ’ very easily . ’ |
| 26 | It is worth the effort because I feel so much better about it now than I did before discovering the benefits of low fat eating and intensive stretching exercises . |
| 27 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 28 | I guess they needed it more than I did ’ . |
| 29 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 30 | Why do n't you ask Dr Pringle — he knew her better than I did and he can give a medical opinion ! ’ |