Example sentences of "than [pers pn] be and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 2 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 3 | He was very much more out than I was and he knew where the gay scene was , not only in Edinburgh but also in London . |
| 4 | And I 'd be aggressive and loud , but not aggressive towards him , but be loud and strolling up and down , making out I was a damn sight worse off than I was and all that . |
| 5 | And she liked the idea of going to work you see , she 'd she 'd got a family , she 'd be about oh she was about ten years older than I was and erm she looked out of place you know . |
| 6 | He 's older than she is and probably a lot more experienced . |
| 7 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 8 | She could not restrain a flash of pride in her physical fitness ; all the nurses were smaller than she was and , although they were prettier , she felt her dignity and certainty returning . |
| 9 | He filled out all the forms making her older than she was and as uninteresting as possible . |
| 10 | Nutty discovered that the ex-Mrs Nicholson 's clothes were all at least two sizes smaller than she was and mostly covered with sequins or beads of some description . |
| 11 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't like sharing my men , ’ she said , intending to sound far more experienced than she was and succeeding . |
| 13 | The one with his arm round her calling her darling was much older than she was and rather older than the thin other man . |
| 14 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 15 | Willi was about four inches shorter than she was and tended to take bouncy steps . |
| 16 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 17 | And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’ |
| 18 | You are stronger than you were and with summer arriving you will once more pick up . |
| 19 | So that is a community place for us as well and that is the only place we can , where we can learn about religion other place because this is a foreign country wi who has got a different religion than we are and there is no other institution will , which will ever mention any of the reading apart from which is So it has played a very important part . |
| 20 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 21 | I have schoolteacher friends , and we were talking about the impact of all this on our children ; that they are becoming even more radical than we were and unavoidably so . |
| 22 | Because of the humidity , below freezing temperatures feel colder than they are and can have the harmful effect of biting deep into the vine and this can be fatal if the sap has started to rise . |
| 23 | if that happens we 've got to market Intercity a lot harder than they are and take and take the work |
| 24 | Their motives tend , I suspect , to be a mixture of concern for their own and their families ' future , concern for countries and people who are less well-off than they are and a sympathetic response based on a wish for the better treatment of the animal world . |
| 25 | Er I wanted to talk to Jim Bowen you see about this quiz show host ought to be a a little nicer than they are and apparently his answer machine is on at home . |
| 26 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |
| 27 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 28 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 29 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 30 | The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove . |