Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing I longed for more than to get into my car , slam the door behind me , close out this looming world of rage and violence . |
| 2 | Grants for ploughing grassland and cereal deficiency payments made barley more profitable than sheep , numbers of which fell by more than half between 1926 and 1954 . |
| 3 | A change of policy was adopted which resulted in more than half the staff working in areas of economic importance . |
| 4 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 5 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 6 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 7 | The SNP needs a swing of nearly 9 per cent but the polls show the Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland and Labour and the Liberals — who accounted for more than a quarter of the vote in Galloway last time — are likely to be squeezed . |
| 8 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 9 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 10 | In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards . |
| 11 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 12 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 13 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 14 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 15 | It accounted for more than half the structures at Chalton but at Bishopstone , where the extent of erosion was even greater and the excavation not total , there is less evidence of such planning although traces of fence lines attached to buildings were located . |
| 16 | It accounted for more than a third of the overall increase in recorded crime this year . |
| 17 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |
| 18 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |