Example sentences of "than [pron] had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 2 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 3 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 4 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 5 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 6 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 7 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 8 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 9 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 10 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 11 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 12 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 13 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 14 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 15 | And , in spite of it , he felt closer to her than he had for months . |
| 16 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |
| 17 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |