Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 2 | However , a combination of the limestone subsoil and the profusion of rivers , canals , lakes and reservoirs reduces Champagne 's water requirement ( due to low evaporation ) , making 662 millimetres of rainfall relatively heavier than it at first appears . |
| 3 | They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves . |
| 4 | I was taller than him in those days , would you believe . |
| 5 | He was taller than she by only a few inches , and slenderly built , an athletic lightweight in a heather tweed sportscoat and grey cords . |
| 6 | She was taller than he by at least four inches , and , even though he outweighed her , it was all gut and no muscle . |
| 7 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ In terms of general plant , Piper was bigger than us , while we were larger than them as crane operators , ’ he said . |
| 10 | They play good football but we were better than them on the day . |
| 11 | I am better than them at other things . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | They 're quite good it looks better than them for office do n't it ? they 're dual power battery and solar |
| 15 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 18 | They are better than me at some things . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I can tell you something , Alex is a lot better than me at it . |
| 22 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 23 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 24 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 25 | We are better than other countries in some things and they are better than us in others . |
| 26 | No he was n't as , as , strong-wise he was hitting as well as you , but he was he was n't as , much better than you at all . |
| 27 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 28 | And erm I I I find it I mean I 'm not going to be sort of holier than thou about it all I mean , perhaps I myself might be tempted er one day . |
| 29 | I say gel but she was a year older than me at least . |
| 30 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |