Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 My Rolex is more than just a watch , it makes me feel dressed . ’
2 I always think that my points are important as well .
3 and I had black all over my back , it was really horrible , and all my hands were black as well , and the
4 The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks .
5 Her skin was paler than ever , her breathing shallow .
6 Outwardly , she had recovered her composure but her eyes were watchful as well as sad .
7 It was n't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire .
8 Also note that TSB Group employees and their families are ineligible as well as anyone connected with the competition .
9 Their role is wider than just being producers of good-quality meat .
10 The excavation of Upper Palaeolithic burials has shown that they were already being sewn onto clothing in positions which suggest that their role was symbolic as well as decorative .
11 In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children .
12 The feeling that she had lost her daughter was stronger than ever .
13 Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate .
14 Ask anyone who regularly runs , jogs or swims and they will tell you that , after such exercise , they experience a ‘ high ’ when their thoughts are sharper than ever , even though their muscles may ache .
15 But the time comes when control is lost again and on each occasion the disease and its consequences are worse than previously .
16 Her expression was thoughtful as well as amused .
17 Her frown was worse than ever .
18 Her popularity was obvious when so many colleagues gathered for her farewell presentation at which she was given a crystal vase and some luggage as a leaving present .
19 Her whisper was fainter than ever .
20 Its roots were personal as well as political .
21 I last saw Sandy in Sydney shortly before his death in 1990 , and his pride in his sons was higher than ever .
22 His eyes were narrower than ever , almost slits .
23 The ache in his bones was worse than before .
24 The darker skin of his thin muscled slightly furry thigh lay hard and firm on the pearly white sheen of the round of her hip , and his desire was stronger than before , but his cock was nowhere .
25 He was indeed notorious for scheduling numerous rehearsals even for pieces he and the orchestra knew backwards , but his repertoire was wider than commonly imagined , and there is some unsuspected treasure in his discography .
26 ‘ Myth is alive at once and in all its parts , and dies before it can be dissected ’ , declared Tolkien , and his statement is more than usually true of The Lord of the Rings , as I have said on p. 100 above .
27 His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two .
28 Often your voice is more than enough .
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