Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb past] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 2 | She noted the breadth of his shoulders , the long legs and dark good looks , and decided Kate had better taste than she 'd given her credit for . |
| 3 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 4 | Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him . |
| 5 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 6 | Shildon had given him a somewhat more detailed account of his findings than he had given Rain , which rankled . |
| 7 | Leon , returning rather later than he had given anyone to understand , thought it politic to take the path through the far paddock and enter the stable yard via the muck heap . |