Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed larger than ever under the low ceiling , and when he strode out through the street door , the saloon bar seemed quite empty without him . |
| 2 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |
| 3 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 4 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 5 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 6 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 7 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 8 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 9 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |