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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] more [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Later on in my schooling life I made more friends but there has been a lot of falling outs , but we always make up again .
2	Roger ( 5.1 ) : I got more hair than you , Rodney .
3	I affected more fear than I felt .
4	I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely .
5	I swotted more bluebottles than anyone else ! ’
6	Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire .
7	In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem .
8	I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others .
9	Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so .
10	I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’
11	At some point I did wonder whether I had more humiliation and torture to look forward to .
12	In Reine les Falaises I encoun-tered more ill-health and death than ever before .
13	Besides the fittings which required more patience than she possessed ( ’ My worst fault is impatience .
14	There was some street detritus which required more imagination than most .
15	He was not often given to anger , which required more energy than he had to spare , but two years without life 's bounty , all for a small matter of dealing drugs to his friends , seemed little short of scandalous .
16	Number five became so terrified she made more mistakes and prayed to God that the dance would never finish .
17	She only normally , she said all I ever get normally is Elizabeth on a pass and she got more passes than anything .
18	She asked more questions than I did . ’
19	She poured more champagne and noticed her hands were shaking .
20	She poured more wine and took a sip .
21	Afterwards she spent more time than usual on her appearance , determined that from now on she would stop behaving like some Victorian miss with the vapours .
22	She made conversation with Bridget , who pressed more gin and lime upon her .
23	Most headhunters originally left their positions in industry at the behest of a headhunting firm who needed more consultants and saw them as fitting the bill .
24	She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services .
25	He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company .
26	She looked more adult and womanly than she really was .
27	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 .
28	At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days .
29	While at Trelawne he was known as a jovial fellow who drank more wine than was customary among the clergy , but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue .
30	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 .