Example sentences of "he [vb past] more [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 2 | I fancied he looked more than a bit like Yves Montand , and told my friend so — long distance from Manchester . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If he was of Deiran royal descent , he ended more than a century of Bernician domination . |