Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody suffered more than Hignett — looking more and more a Premier League thoroughbred , despite only six games in the top flight following his £500,000 transfer last month . |
| 2 | Hari smiled , she knew more than Emily , she knew where Craig was , and she was learning all about him , how kind he was and what a real gent he could be . |
| 3 | Like the children I had completely suspended my disbelief : nothing mattered more than Mr Knightley 's decision about the future of the the threatened piece of land . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus … in reply to being asked if they worried more than others , they would answer , ‘ How can I know how much others worry ? ’ ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What if it offered more than Medau ? |
| 8 | She had dared to hope he felt more than desire , but that he loved her … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |