Example sentences of "than he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embarrassed at having seduced the daughter of a friend , and now encumbered with the threat of a far more intense relationship than he 'd bargained for ? |
| 2 | The captain spoke few words , but agreed that the crew were better than he 'd hoped for , and that the ship was a fine one . |
| 3 | She remembered him trying to tell her , sometimes , about the sky and the Thing and where nomes first came from , and she 'd never really understood , any more than he 'd understood about the little frogs . |
| 4 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 5 | Adam Carver had spent longer than he 'd expected with Uno . |
| 6 | Painted straight onto the walls , this commission took far more of the artist 's time than he had bargained for , and Lutyens had to be firm with his friend to make him finish it . |
| 7 | City-dweller Moiphebi Nkuebe goes to visit a witchdoctor — and brings home rather more than he had bargained for . |
| 8 | This brought in Richardson , to a much warmer reception than he had received in Jamacia , and he again shared a hundred partnership with Simmons , who was on his way to another century , the second fifty of which cam up in only 32 balls ( including successive hits for 4 , 6 , and 4 off Bosch ) , the first half having occupied 103 . |
| 9 | He seemed less of the dictator than he had appeared to her yesterday ! |
| 10 | After the first success in the matter of Amy Larner , who was now comfortably situated with Dr Horrocks 's friends in Saxburgh , Edwin Frere found himself a little at a loss , for his parish proved less permeable than he had hoped to the motions of the spirit . |
| 11 | He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all . |
| 12 | In the end , de Gaulle 's margin of victory in the referendum of 28 October 1962 was less impressive than he had hoped for : only sixty-two per cent of those who voted approved the change . |
| 13 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 14 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 15 | He mixed socially much less with Royal College students than he had done at Camberwell . |
| 16 | Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far . |
| 17 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 18 | Close to , he looked less mad than he had done for ages ; just drawn , pale , weary . |
| 19 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 20 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 21 | The man claimed to have learnt self-control , temperance , and forbearance from his observations , and to have ‘ profited more to rule his passions in the rest of his life , than he had done by any thing that he had heard , or read before ’ . |
| 22 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 23 | Alex Macdonald , the hard-nosed manager of Airdrie , refused to apologise for his team 's performance in a midweek match against Hibs in Edinburgh any more than he had done after that bewildering semi-final against Hearts at Hampden . |
| 24 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 25 | The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle . |
| 26 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 27 | The idea of a Gaullist party had certainly been raised in the aftermath of the liberation — mostly by ex-resisters without a party affiliation — but there is no evidence that de Gaulle gave it any more serious consideration than he had done in 1943 . |
| 28 | When the boy drew his horse in triumphantly beside him , he felt more pride , more sense of achievement than he had felt in four years of high-powered business dealings . |
| 29 | Sometimes Preston felt that St Augustine had raised more problems than he had solved with his theory about the holes in the universe . |
| 30 | On reporting to the tsar in 1849 , the Minister received the title of Count for providing Nicholas with more information about a group of dissidents than he had had since the exposure of the Decembrists . |