Example sentences of "[pers pn] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to be yours more than anything else in the world , and it 's not too late . |
| 2 | Oh she misses you obviously , more than she more than she 'll erm admit cos you 're very you were very close anyway were n't you , as brother and sister |
| 3 | They more than pulled at this point — they just stopped communicating . |
| 4 | This is the very reason why good spiritual directors do not mind the title because they more than anyone , recognize that the prime director is the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | Are they more than a series of taboos ? |
| 6 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 7 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 8 | He hinted at the unlikelihood of Jack Pertwee 's being married that day and was inwardly amused to observe that this piece of information — the fact that Carter would be deprived of his cold chicken and champagne — distressed him more than Hatton 's death . |
| 9 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 10 | What did he do for these other people and do they actually miss him more than they do themselves ? |
| 11 | For to choose a man on the ground that you agree with him more than his rivals is quite clearly to choose a representative ; moreover , the set of people who agree with a candidate comes to look very like a party as soon as they concert their actions . |
| 12 | Then he knows that they fear him more than dishonour . |
| 13 | While political consistency can be over-rated as a virtue — Ted Heath being an example of what happens to a politician whose mind remains fixed while the world moves by him — the rapidity with which Kinnock changed position may have damaged him more than his supporters thought it would . |
| 14 | Alex talked to him more than I did . |
| 15 | I ca n't remember Nick 's exact words but Ray 's comment inspired him more than upset him . |
| 16 | Few find him more than adequate and even fewer describe him as good or even satisfactory . |
| 17 | ‘ They were very close friends and I think she hurt him more than anyone else ever could , ’ she says . |
| 18 | I 'm with him more than anybody and I do n't really know him , except that you 're the only one he really cares for . ’ |
| 19 | This should have been a happy and holy occasion but the expressions on the faces looking up at him — Denis , Hana , Uncle Mick , Carmella , now pale and shaken , even poor Joey — told him more than any words how empty the action was . |
| 20 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 21 | It may take me a little longer but … ’ he smiled , and his confidence made her dislike him more than ever , ‘ I promise you I shall get there in the end . ’ |
| 22 | What concerned him more than it did George was that the child would be a boy . |
| 23 | This is analogous to the claim Gandhi makes in an address he gave to Christian missionaries , namely , that ‘ many men who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ or have even rejected the official interpretation of Christianity would probably , if Jesus came into our midst today … be owned by him more than many of us … ’ |
| 24 | Future movie stars will resemble him more than those you have been used to . ’ |
| 25 | I took Gabriel into myself and loved him more than myself and maybe you 're right and I just ca n't let him go , but it 's not like that , Philippa , I swear it , it 's something else , a force — something wonderful if only I were n't so alone with it , something terrible unless I learn to understand it . |
| 26 | She loved him more than ever . |
| 27 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 28 | ‘ It has hurt him more than anything else since his release . |
| 29 | Yet he was her father , and she was aware , in this instant , that she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone on earth except herself ; more than husband , far more than children . |
| 30 | He thought to himself , right , you 've called the boy Hilbert to please me , to make me like him , so I damn well will like him , I 'll like him more than you and leave him the place over your head . ’ |