Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I probably knew more than you realized , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I was beginning to realise that I would never actually be a man and I already had experienced what I probably wanted more than anything else — the power men have in society . |
| 3 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 4 | And especially the beloved Charles Dickens , who perhaps did more than any man in his century — including the great legislators and engineers — to awaken a new conscience in his fellow men . |
| 5 | You still got more than me ! |
| 6 | That girl in the photos did n't look as if she ever did more than totter from A to B on the highest of spindly heels . |
| 7 | You have unspend , you have spent , and you actually spent more than we 've got in some instances . |
| 8 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 9 | With their mother gone they already had more than their fair share of shopping and cooking . |
| 10 | They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months . |
| 11 | Whites had significantly more in privately rented accommodation ( confirming the census , Table 3 ) and had over half who had lived in their house less than three years , compared with about a quarter of Blacks and Asians ; they also had more than academic qualifications . |
| 12 | Supposedly for American sympathizers to the Nazi cause , as far as Asa knew , they never had more than half a dozen members and he had n't met the others . |
| 13 | Although there were delays in the criminal courts , they seldom lasted more than a few months . |
| 14 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 15 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 16 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 17 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |
| 18 | ‘ He also had more than a crush , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 19 | It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour ! |
| 20 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |