Example sentences of "than [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 2 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 3 | To me , it was just another place where I would be pushed around , perhaps even more violently than I had been before . |
| 4 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 5 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 6 | Incredulity in one 's listener is a great silencer , particularly when it verges on ridicule , and Bob was likely to prove a milder critic than I had been . |
| 7 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 8 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 9 | I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally . |
| 10 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 11 | There was plenty of flying , sport , and my work on the aircraft was nearer to the pulse of the Air Force than I had been before . |
| 12 | Now that is to paint a far wider duty than I had been er er er thought and indeed er those who follow these matters have suggested that 's rather wider than the than the er secondary legislation here before us actually provides for . |
| 13 | He was evidently much more successful in the art of privacy than she had been . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies . |
| 15 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 16 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 17 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 18 | At first they seemed brighter , smaller and cruder than she had been led to expect by the polite reproductions . |
| 19 | She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia . |
| 20 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 21 | He could sense that she was alive somewhere close , where the Men had taken her , and that she was very near her end ; nearer than she had been before . |
| 22 | Tom and Francis remained quite friendly until — ’ She changed her mind about continuing , which made Delia Sutherland more interested than she had been . |
| 23 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 24 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 25 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 26 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 27 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 28 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 29 | She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before . |
| 30 | In fact , she was feeling much more cheered than she had been . |