Example sentences of "us more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 2 | How then shall we try men who have examined us more than we have ourselves ? |
| 3 | It is not meant to be an exclusive list , and nothing would please us more than to hear from readers about others — or their shortcomings , if the case deserved it . |
| 4 | We both have work to do , we each have a duty , yours your work , mine to help my Mother , and surely our love will help us more than anything to do well . |
| 5 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 6 | The thing that stirs us more than anything is war in defence of our nation . |
| 7 | The presence and influence of other persons in our life make us more than we are on our own . |
| 8 | It took us more than an hour to make our way down those 47 double flights of metal stairs , but we were young and healthy and we enjoyed steins of lager when we finally reached a ground level bar . |
| 9 | It gives us more than enough space and time to do what we want , even given the pressures of frequent assessment . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 've got a party on line wants your private number , He wo n't give us more than ‘ Jack ’ . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Jockey Club wants to charge us more than it costs us to obtain riding plans at the moment , ’ said Gavin Bargate , the PA 's Racing Service Editor . |
| 12 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 13 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 14 | The Bible does not tell us more than that . |
| 15 | I understand , so in other words your research is n't actually going to tell us more than |
| 16 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 17 | ‘ The wolves need us more than we need them . |
| 18 | Colleagues , colleagues , let me remind you once more , they need us more than we need them . |
| 19 | It seems to have hit us more than anyone else for some reason . |
| 20 | ‘ And now I 've confided my murky past , that must make us more than acquaintances . ’ |
| 21 | He has agreed to pay us more than our usual commission — well , I explained , of course , that we would need ample compensation to lend him one of our girls for such unusual services , and I must say — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's affected us more than Hillsborough . ’ |