Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [det] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dmitrii Zamiatnin , the deputy Minister of Justice , and Sergei Zarudnyi , Bludov 's assistant at the Second Department , were juridical radicals , but although they registered a few successes in their quest for change ( notably the foundation of the enlightened Journal of the Ministry of Justice in 1859 ) , they needed more than idealism to convert their superiors . |
| 2 | They did more than justice to the varying moods of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2 , although there were odd moments when the orchestra were not precisely together , notably at the start of The Young Juliet section . |
| 3 | She would be drinking coffee as if it cost less than water , wearing alligator shoes made to fit her pretty feet , and watching at Tommaso 's side a parade of half-naked girls with bracelets round their legs , whirling to a drummer 's flying hands , while a group of handsome , grinning soldiers stood by . |
| 4 | She had dared to hope he felt more than desire , but that he loved her … |
| 5 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 6 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |