Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] more than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is surely something very odd about insisting that I need more than the fact that I love cats and hate dogs to decide which to have about the house . |
| 2 | For obvious reasons the dangers of such malpractice are endemic in policing , and it may be ‘ respectable fears ’ about it which fluctuate more than the extent of abuse . |
| 3 | I want you to see more than the cow . |
| 4 | If you earn more than the LEL , you pay contributions on all earnings — a big disincentive to raising your hours , and therefore your pay , by that small amount . |
| 5 | Now , after some shrewd scavving and a touch of inventive accountancy , she had more than the price of the pudding . |
| 6 | You ca n't have a working party member who knows more than the quizmaster ! |
| 7 | No one realised more than the Queen that her children were deeply flawed and that the monarchy might be better served if that generation was skipped altogether . |
| 8 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 9 | A team is a small group ( 6 to 8 people is a typical size ) who co-operate together in such a way that they accomplish more than the sum total of the individuals . |
| 10 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 11 | ‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee . |
| 12 | Every week he needed more than the week before , and to get a full hit he had to inject . |
| 13 | It offered more than the Curragh . |