Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb past] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 2 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 3 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 4 | While the provisional agreement reached in the July 1992 ECOFIN was better than we feared at one juncture , it still marks a worsening in our relative position . |
| 5 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 6 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 7 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 8 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 9 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 10 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |