Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 2 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 3 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 4 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 5 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 6 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 7 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 8 | For real benefit , allow your exercise to help you on more than simply a physical level . |
| 9 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 10 | She wo n't charge me with more than my due , nor will she let that lad pay for a death I 'm sure he does not owe . |
| 11 | Narratorial frustration is evident in the disjointed structure of the novel which focuses briefly on a number of subcultures of professional London without bothering to link them in more than a cursory manner . |
| 12 | And the fact is Jimi just turned me on more than anybody else , for his music . |
| 13 | Obviously we do n't want to expose them to more than they can take . |
| 14 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 15 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 16 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 17 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 18 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 19 | And Robert Urquhart had been shown to be lying to her about more than his affections . |
| 20 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I 'm hardly going to get back into bed with him after more than a whole year . |
| 22 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 23 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |
| 24 | Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time . |
| 25 | On the home front his business experiences should stand him in more than good stead : cobblers is the stock-in-trade of most cricket committees . |
| 26 | On the home front his business experiences should stand him in more than good stead : cobblers is the stock-in-trade of most cricket committees . |
| 27 | I often thought Rob was like him in more than mere looks , ’ she went on thoughtfully , then her tone lightened . |
| 28 | He liked her , you could n't help but like her , but he wished in this moment it was in him to more than like her . |
| 29 | Anyone viewing it for more than 1 round acquires D3 Insanity Points . |
| 30 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |