Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 2 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 3 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 4 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 5 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 6 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 8 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 9 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 10 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 11 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 12 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 13 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Derek Hampson , assistant manager of the RSPCA home , said : ‘ The dog was much older than we had at first been informed and he was very sick . |
| 16 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 17 | The most important lesson to be learnt from the fossil discoveries of the 1840s and 1850s was that the history of life was far more complex than anyone had at first realized . |
| 18 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 19 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 20 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 21 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 22 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 23 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 24 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 25 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 26 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 27 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 28 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 29 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 30 | 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 . |