Example sentences of "[det] [noun] than i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got Svidrigailov 's nightmare past the censor , and there is a good deal more to that horror than I have quoted ; and ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ could have been got past him too . |
| 2 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 3 | There 's more humans in this place than I 've ever seen before . |
| 4 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 5 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 6 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 7 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
| 8 | So history 's a very much broader and more popular subject in this country than I think it is in almost any other country in the world . |
| 9 | I felt embarrassed : clearly we had seen more of Flora at this time than I remembered . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure you know more about such things than I do , ’ she replied , amazed that she could sound so calm . |
| 11 | ‘ You know more about such people than I do , Brother . |
| 12 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 13 | And I was fortunate in that I had friends — musical and artistic — who knew so much more about these subjects than I did , and enjoyed sharing their knowledge with me . |
| 14 | well I , I think I 'll take agree Mr you know much more about these matters than I do , I just , my eye just lit upon that one I thought that would perhaps the one in which the insurance directive could be said to be attached , but if you 've told me it 's C I 'm perfectly happy to accept it as being C. |
| 15 | You know more about these things than I do . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I probably committed more fouls in that game than I have throughout my entire career — I was that determined to do well . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 18 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 19 | You do have to compromise a fair bit and I suppose that I would like more freedom than I 've got . |
| 20 | Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed . |
| 21 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 22 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 23 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 24 | It has gone very sweetly ever since but that was a good deal of production time that was lost that cost me a lost more money than I had anticipated . |
| 25 | By this time , however , my gallery experience had taught me that you need money to start up properly , much more money than I had originally thought . |
| 26 | ‘ I could have gone to European clubs for a lot more money than I earn now , ’ he says . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's got more money than I have , ’ complained Owen after four largeish simultaneous demonstrations had stretched his resources to the utmost . |
| 28 | On this slide I 've kept the text pretty small , because stays on this line , but er , you 've got more text than I 've got there , to explain the purpose of this spreadsheet . |
| 29 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 30 | I 've come to terms with it , it does n't bother whether I 've got it or not , but to be honest I 'd rather have more hair than I do now . |