Example sentences of "than i [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 2 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 3 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 4 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | They 're much better informed than I was at their age . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm lighter now than I was at Tottenham . |
| 7 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 8 | That was John Russell , no older than I was at twenty-one and no more Apache than I was . |
| 9 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 10 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 11 | ‘ … burst upon the scene , and , do you know , he looked so angry that I was more frightened of him than I was of his grisly companion . |
| 12 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 13 | I never expect to be more moved by a man and a horse than I was by Winter and Mandarin this afternoon . |
| 14 | My batman , who is a positive Jeeves , is with me and , truly , I am far less aware of being at war than I was in England . |