Example sentences of "than i [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks .
2 In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games .
3 ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea .
4 ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’
5 ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly .
6 Look , Rory , I 've been wrong about a lot of things in my life , but never more than I have been about you , right from the start .
7 No , I do n't want to do it but I mean I 'm not I 'm certainly happier than I have been about it if
8 I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’
9 But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’
10 I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have .
11 Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time .
12 I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’
13 In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ !
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