Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they more than a series of taboos ? |
| 2 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 3 | Next is Aled Williams of Bridgend , whose consistency in domestic matches , which might not be transferred to internationals , should have earned him more than a replacement honour ( out of position ) against Namibia in 1990 . |
| 4 | Ron Robinson took charge of this element and the gathering that was achieved might have caused him more than a few ulcers , but he had to admit was more than worth the effort ! |
| 5 | Well , if you want my advice , I 'd say make him more than a friend , if you get my meaning . |
| 6 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 7 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 8 | Maxwell still thinks he can run this himself , pay up and leave with his daughter rather than keep his money and have the case come to court so that his affairs might have to be examined — that could cost him more than the ransom . |
| 9 | But he felt no exhilaration , and he did not participate in the public celebrations after the surrender of the Japanese ; the noise of the fireworks actually disturbed him more than the bombs of the blitz . |
| 10 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 11 | Even the minutiae of the airline business obsessed him more than the minutiae of the record business ever had . |
| 12 | It struck him as odd that the death of this unknown mongrel should , for a moment , anger him more than the killing of Lorrimer . |
| 13 | Jessop had considerable scruples about taking the ‘ engagement ’ , or loyalty oath to the republic ; the abolition of the House of Lords seems to have upset him more than the 1649 regicide and abolition of the monarchy . |
| 14 | The rats disturbed him more than the previous night . |
| 15 | The shadow of Tig masked him more than the ferocious wound that had blinded his left eye and decorated his cheeks with scars . |
| 16 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 17 | The three characters are portrayed with vivid detail and lively humour : two sailors who flirt with a girl but find her more than a match for either of them . |
| 18 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 19 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 20 | Doctors have given her more than a fighting chance and I just have that to cling to . ’ |
| 21 | Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen . |
| 22 | And the new job as Guides chief executive will pay her more than the £45,000 a year she got from British Gas . |
| 23 | The romanticism of the period upset her more than the blood . |
| 24 | His gravelly Scots voice pleased her more than the last time she met him . |
| 25 | But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . |
| 26 | I think that galled her more than the ghostly sound-effects . ’ |
| 27 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 28 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 29 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 30 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |