Example sentences of "[noun] more [adv] [subord] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What ought we to do ? ’ said Fenella , a bit more loudly than she had meant . |
| 2 | Displaying his sense of humour , McKenzie quipped : ‘ I think I 've had my arms around Phil more often than I 've had them around my fiancee ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Somewhere public , ’ she ventured acidly , ‘ where we can look at strangers who organise their lives and affairs more successfully than we 've done . ’ |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Even if it rained between now and October more heavily than it has ever done in recorded time there would still be rivers , such as the Ver in Hertfordshire , that would not get enough water to enable them to flow properly . |
| 5 | I wonder if you should pay twenty pounds more again if you have a third set and again if you have a fourth set . |
| 6 | Damn this man and his ability to force her into probing her own psyche more deeply than she 'd perhaps ever done before . |
| 7 | He found that man more easily than he had anticipated , quite near at hand , indeed , having himself just completed his return charge and now wondering what to do next . |
| 8 | Since I was working from this book I read the introduction more carefully than I had done previously . |
| 9 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 10 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 11 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 12 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 13 | P.S. We can plan our campaigns more effectively if we have a regular income . |
| 14 | Still , we were hopeful of the future of the still young department , when the decision was made to seek CNAA validation for the courses offered by the College , and we prepared to rewrite ours to take account of our experience , and to justify our intentions more fully than we had had to do before to critics from whom we expected scepticism rather than sympathy . |
| 15 | A generation that 's gone to prison more often than it 's gone to schools or cinemas a generation where family life is not known where the horrible migrative system destroyed any idea of family life how do we reconstruct ? |