Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 32 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 33 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 34 | ‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee . |
| 35 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 36 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |
| 37 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 38 | It takes more than a shoestring to keep an essential component of the economy strong , say the Met , and other institutions concur . |
| 39 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 40 | Given the massive contribution made daily by dedicated staff at the DMH it seems more than a touch insensitive to expect them to dip into their own pockets for the place as well . |
| 41 | Every week he needed more than the week before , and to get a full hit he had to inject . |
| 42 | For this moment he mattered more than the boys . |
| 43 | Also , despite what had occurred in the past between them , SHe needed Cab so badly now it hurt more than the bruises in hir belly . |
| 44 | It offered more than the Curragh . |
| 45 | I fancied he looked more than a bit like Yves Montand , and told my friend so — long distance from Manchester . |
| 46 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 47 | It took more than a month to find and sign a contract with another company to complete the remaining work . |
| 48 | It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel . |
| 49 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 50 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 51 | AT the magistrates court it took more than an hour to read out all the charges . |
| 52 | The MGFV is paid back to Ford Credit , but if you 've kept the car in good nick and it fetches more than the MGFV then you keep any profit . |
| 53 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 54 | He had more than an hour to fill in before the meal : he had a maid bring him beer . |
| 55 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
| 56 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |
| 57 | If he was of Deiran royal descent , he ended more than a century of Bernician domination . |