Example sentences of "more than [pos pn] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a Fellow of Magdalen he earned £500 a year , considerably more than his father 's allowance of £210 . |
| 2 | His eldest surviving son , Coleridge 's father , was born in 1719 and attended the Grammar School at Crediton ; but when bankruptcy brought the family low , the younger John , not quite sixteen years of age , ‘ walked off to seek his fortune ’ , taking with him no more than his father 's blessing and half a crown . |
| 3 | ROS : Something more than his father 's death — |
| 4 | Charles perhaps still more than his father regarded St Denis as both personal and dynastic patron ; and though the earliest evidence of this comes from the early years of his own reign , it was surely rooted in childhood habits . |
| 5 | What I have to say might upset you even more than your father 's heart attack . ’ |
| 6 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |