Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] more [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 4 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I often thought Rob was like him in more than mere looks , ’ she went on thoughtfully , then her tone lightened . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anyone viewing it for more than 1 round acquires D3 Insanity Points . |
| 11 | The scientific age , with its new chemical and metallurgical industries , produced more pollution and spread it about more than any previous epoch . |
| 12 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |