Example sentences of "[vb past] more at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some you 'll find screens and pews and font-covers of such exuberance they 'd more at home in a Moorish palace . |
| 2 | German Michael Kahlfuss , in his much-ridiculed 600cc Trabant , seemed more at home in the land of Wordsworth and Wainwright . |
| 3 | Miklós wanted to know why the Scots seemed more at ease as British than the Irish . |
| 4 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 5 | Pain was experienced by 67 per cent of all patients , most of whom experienced more at night , suggesting that a number of apparently ‘ venous ’ ulcers may have a concurrent ischaemic component . |
| 6 | She felt more at home with the scientists . |
| 7 | The ‘ great windy parlour ’ at the front of the building was soon to become for Coleridge a place in which he felt more at home than in his own tiny cottage , and it was there that he and Poole were later to spend long sociable hours with the Wordsworths , Charles Lamb , Hazlitt and others . |
| 8 | He felt more at home in a city at night , comforted by strips of empty pavement , the harsh lines of concrete towers and by the ubiquitous blanket of artificial light . |
| 9 | He felt more at home with a good filing cabinet , of which there were three , in khaki-painted metal . |
| 10 | Candy was right , she realised bleakly — part of her did want to get back where she belonged , and there was nowhere she felt more at home than on a stage . |
| 11 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 12 | She felt more at ease , but not for long . |
| 13 | Perhaps that is why Heather felt more at ease with the likes of you and I than with her family and the friends they chose for her . ’ |
| 14 | But these hot summer nights lend themselves better to cold lager and I felt more at ease with the Schonbrau Original Premium Pilsener lager , very dry and good value at £3.99 for four cans . |
| 15 | But these hot summer nights lend themselves better to cold lager and I felt more at ease with the Original Premium Pilsener lager , very dry and good value at £3.99 for four cans . |
| 16 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 17 | Atherton , his 20th Test , reached his 11th fifty , and , of anything , looked more at ease than his captain . |
| 18 | As part of this expansion , the company is adding a contract range of plain fabrics to its collection , aimed more at architects than interior designers for the hotel and office markets . |