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