Example sentences of "than [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 2 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 3 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 4 | So , of course , it was worth considerably more than I 'd been offered , and there were the most unpleasant suggestions flying around . |
| 5 | I might hope to be a better grandfather than I 'd been a father . ’ |
| 6 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 7 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 8 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 9 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 10 | To me , it was just another place where I would be pushed around , perhaps even more violently than I had been before . |
| 11 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 12 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 13 | Incredulity in one 's listener is a great silencer , particularly when it verges on ridicule , and Bob was likely to prove a milder critic than I had been . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 16 | I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally . |
| 17 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 18 | There was plenty of flying , sport , and my work on the aircraft was nearer to the pulse of the Air Force than I had been before . |
| 19 | Now that is to paint a far wider duty than I had been er er er thought and indeed er those who follow these matters have suggested that 's rather wider than the than the er secondary legislation here before us actually provides for . |
| 20 | ‘ But I was so ready to become a mother , and I 'm happy and more confident than I 've been before . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've had no problem recruiting — I 've had far more offers than I 've been able to use . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 26 | Ex-motorcycle gang member with murder , kidnap and serious drug offences going on longer than I 've been alive . |
| 27 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ’ ! |
| 29 | That was the point , I thought , but perhaps machines are more versatile than I have been informed they are . |
| 30 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |