Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] more [noun pl] than " in BNC.
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1 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
2 | ‘ Ten years , ’ he said , ‘ ten years I 've had on this milk run , see , and I seen more accidents than I 've had Sunday dinners . |
3 | I know more songs than you . |
4 | I swotted more bluebottles than anyone else ! ’ |
5 | But otherwise I find more cons than pros . |
6 | Now I 've more orders than I can handle . |
7 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
8 | Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . |
9 | She chose pattern 137 from ‘ Stitchworld ’ , which has more holes than fabric . |
10 | The obsession , which affects more boys than girls , can be as bad as the eating disorder anorexia , said Dr Dorothy Rowe . |
11 | While both these objections have truth to them , it is also clear that a range of critical writings which share more preoccupations than differences has emerged and that it can be contrasted to other forms of writing about texts and history . |
12 | The other is a consortium which includes Multivision , an upstart pay-TV company in Mexico City which claims more subscribers than Televisa . |
13 | ( Try thinking about your finger movements when you play a well-known tune on a keyboard — you make more mistakes than if you let your fingers do the thinking . ) |
14 | Do you want more parsnips than that ? |
15 | She only normally , she said all I ever get normally is Elizabeth on a pass and she got more passes than anything . |
16 | She asked more questions than I did . ’ |
17 | The 33-year-old , who has more sacks than anyone in League history , had already announced this would be his last season . |
18 | I am sure she has more cards than anyone else on her ward . |
19 | She has more servants than she knows what to do with . |
20 | well what happens if you average more hours than you 're supposed to average ? |
21 | If you insert more rows than the numbers |
22 | If you publish more copies than you can hope to sell yourselves , you may need a distributor . |
23 | and Bev was saying do you get more men than women ? |
24 | Unknown to the man who won more downhills than any other racer in history , the local ski patrol spent most of the night clearing snow by hand from the third tee and green at the local golf course in Copper Creek , the highest 18-hole golf course in North America , so that he could play golf on his birthday . |
25 | ‘ I expect that means you do more cases than most ? ’ |
26 | Have you taken more drugs than eaten hot meals ? |
27 | She smoked more cigarettes than anybody I was ever to meet , and she cemented my loyalty to her with frequent presents of Airfix model aeroplanes . |
28 | You 've more stories than I do . |
29 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
30 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |