Example sentences of "than [pron] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |
| 2 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 3 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 4 | He can be met , really met , only in the encounter in which we finite creatures of time and history are confronted by the One who is infinite and eternal , and who remains infinite and eternal and ‘ wholly Other ’ than ourselves in that meeting . |
| 5 | We did not believe that any of these should be the subject of charity or whim on the part of people more privileged than ourselves in this society . |
| 6 | A dedicated cook with a demanding job outside the home will probably need their kitchen to be that much more functional than someone with more leisure to shop — at least in the sense of providing good storage and extra quick cooking facilities , such as microwave oven and a freezer . |
| 7 | OF 2 , for instance , has six more AOs ( four valence-shell orbitals on each fluorine , rather than one for each hydrogen in H 2 O ) and hence six more MOs . |
| 8 | We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed . |
| 9 | They seem to be able to cope with it far better than anybody in this group at the moment do n't they . |
| 10 | I 'd have a better tan than her at this rate , all the outdoor living I was doing . |
| 11 | As a far better man than anyone in this House once said , ’ facts are chiels that winna ding ’ , even for Tory Ministers . |