Example sentences of "than he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 2 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 3 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 4 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 5 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 6 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |
| 7 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 8 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 9 | He was obviously even more angry with her than he had been during the contretemps with Terry . |
| 10 | Leslie was happier than he had been since joining the army . |
| 11 | He was rude to officials and contemptuous of backbenchers less successful in their careers than he had been since becoming MP for Putney in 1979 . |
| 12 | The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat . |
| 13 | In fact , if anything he was even more remote and distant now than he had been before their weekend , as if he had n't meant to let her get so close and was frantically clawing back space . |
| 14 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 15 | In no time at all , he was faster than he had been in practice , something I have never seen since in a race by a leading driver . |
| 16 | He was no less prompt here than he had been in Wales . |
| 17 | Although in good spirits , Frank was even more withdrawn than he had been in the Pit . |
| 18 | He was more casually dressed than he had been in London . |
| 19 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 20 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |