Example sentences of "than i ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 2 | They 're more than I ever thought … |
| 3 | Standing there with her back to me , she looks more beautiful than I ever seen her . |
| 4 | I miss her more than I ever missed anyone . |
| 5 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 6 | I have learned more than I ever knew about humility . |
| 7 | I enjoy going out to buy something , having saved up for it , far more than I ever did when my favourite phrase was ‘ charge it , please ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 9 | I understand life , and the family ties that make up almost all of it , much less than I ever did . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I do more in an hour with Glen than I ever have in two hours with any other coach , and the team as a whole achieves much more . |
| 11 | I still do n't like regulars any more than I ever did ; the officers are not too bad , but the men are not a good type , and the ex-ranker officer is a strain to live with . |
| 12 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
| 13 | Over these last nine years , I have had opportunities to participate in the exercise of more power than I ever imagined I would have . |
| 14 | an eye as would receive from a heavy soul the dullest expression ; but it speaks every emotion of his animated mind ; it has more of the ‘ poet 's eye in a fine frenzy rolling ’ than I ever witnessed . |
| 15 | I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp . |
| 16 | Books and tapes of TV programmes record the genesis and growth of Grove House , The Bristol Cancer Help Centre better than I ever could . |
| 17 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 18 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
| 19 | As a result of that I 'm learning more now than I ever have , even though I have less time in which to do so . ’ |
| 20 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |
| 22 | It worked rather well , and I made far more by doing that than I ever had working for the paper shop . |
| 23 | A half-minute passed in silence , then he said quietly : ‘ This is worse than I ever dreamed . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ At least I 've seen more of the town where I live than I ever saw from a carriage or on horseback . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ Hari said ruefully , ‘ I do n't suppose you realize how lucky you were to have things to sell , that 's more than I ever had , mind . ’ |
| 26 | Between the ages of 33 and 33–½ my mind changed , I think due to mere terror , or the outrageous ageing process , or gross deliberate indulgence , or love and emotion , or noticing that all around me friends and enemies were having children and were tons happier than I ever thought possible , or all of a sweet serious sudden it just seemed the only thing to do . |
| 27 | Most importantly , I 'm infinitely happier now than I ever was before . |
| 28 | These are not my words , they are the Lolita chap , Nabokov 's , but they express better than I ever could my feelings . |
| 29 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 30 | ‘ Miss Oliver will forget me in a month , and will probably marry someone who 'll make her far happier than I ever could ! ’ |