Example sentences of "than i [vb past] at " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first .
2 Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque .
3 Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you .
4 I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run .
5 In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit .
6 ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell .
7 " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty .
8 more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics .
9 Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’
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