Example sentences of "than i [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 2 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 3 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 4 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 5 | Even if she did claim to know who it was we 'd find it difficult to convince a judge , without far more proof than I have at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |
| 7 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 8 | erm I 'd like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than I do at the moment I tend to get lost in what 's in front of me . |
| 9 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 10 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 11 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 12 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 13 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 14 | Surprisingly I 'm very interested in that ; I look at fashion magazines more than I look at news magazines . |