Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 2 | It was easy enough to demand racial equality , fair distribution of the wealth of the world , or equal rights for women : none of those would happen tomorrow , and none of them involved more than the most superficial cosmetic surgery to make yourself credible . |
| 3 | You do n't like me to know more than you . |
| 4 | Looming over them obscuring more than half the sky , the bow of the tanker swept by their stern , pushing a rolling black mound of water . |
| 5 | I mean more than the nuclear umbrella and the massive and rapid reinforcement capability that America offers within a NATO structure . |
| 6 | So you know I mean more than that by all means , you know , er so much the better , you know y the more the merrier but erm certainly you know kind of it 's a good idea to at least try and get that many erm |
| 7 | Nevertheless , I eat more than my fair share of oysters , and filch one of her lobster claws after I 've eaten my own . |
| 8 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 9 | ‘ I found more than we bargained for — including that policewoman Hampton . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I know no man since the apostles ’ days , ’ wrote Baxter , ‘ whom I honour more than Calvin , and whose judgment in all things , one with another , I more esteem and come nearer to . ’ |
| 11 | I realize now that that is what I want more than anything else . |
| 12 | Feminism is a given — but I want more than the political outline . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , but I want more than that . |
| 14 | You know , the thing I want more than anything else — you could call it my dream in life — is to make lots of money . |
| 15 | There 's nothing I want more than that my daughter should grow up to be the sort of person who gets along with everybody . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I want more than just weekends . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There 's nothing on this earth that I want more than to make love to you , but , if I do , later you 'll regret it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I wo n't be used ; I want more than that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I want more than your body , ’ he said quietly , ‘ though lord knows it 's given me a few sleepless nights ! |
| 20 | ‘ I want more than physical love ! ’ she told him baldly . |
| 21 | ‘ What I want more than anything is to have somewhere I can look forward to . ’ |
| 22 | Should n't worry you we alright , I want more than a c ake |
| 23 | Another time I noticed more than I meant |
| 24 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 25 | " Then if I paid more than just our fares . " |
| 26 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 27 | Er I think I am on version ten , I do n't know whether that 's one or two more than , but er , the officers have worked , worked very hard and I 'm very grateful to them , erm I 'm also very grateful to the primary heads , secondary heads , their own staff associations , and the representatives of the governors for whom Hilary , Bob and I have met , and er we 've listened very carefully to what they have to say and we 've done our modest best to er to er use their priorities as well as our own perhaps political one , we 've looked at the educational value er , I suspect more than the other two groups erm than the political sum . |
| 28 | ‘ I read more than the newspapers . |
| 29 | Tension can be created either by the sponsor 's subtle , superior position of detachment : ‘ I am only here to describe the problems ; you are the ones who will have to face them ’ , or , quite differently , a hint of ‘ I know more than I am going to tell ’ , or its cruder version : ‘ I am doing a good salesman 's job and you are going to fall for it ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Bet I know more than you do . ’ |