Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 2 | I had more than a casual interest in politics . |
| 3 | Actually , I had more than a hand in it ; I designed all of Crate 's new tube line , even though it does n't have my name on it . |
| 4 | This Act introduced a new block grant in England and Wales and included a formula which penalized councils which spent more than a previously determined limit . |
| 5 | The last few miles to Ealing were covered in a jerking crawl which took more than an hour , and daylight was breaking down into darkness as Alison gave directions through the maze of streets and parked cars away from the main shopping area . |
| 6 | He was speaking after a meeting with Sir Patrick Mayhew which lasted more than an hour . |
| 7 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ concludes David , ‘ you got more than a quick response to that one ! |
| 9 | In the remaining seats , the candidates who got more than an eighth of the total vote go to a second ballot . |
| 10 | She needed more than a non-committal grunt in answer to her outpourings . |
| 11 | He could n't know how much she loved him — would probably be horrified if he guessed she felt more than a physical attraction . |
| 12 | Until 1975 , for each week during which you earned more than a minimum amount , a stamp went on your national insurance card . |
| 13 | This was the brainchild of Martin and Hermon Bond , two farmers , who had more than a passing interest in golf . |
| 14 | Mrs Hughes , who waited more than a century for some of the most exciting times of her life , passed away peacefully in her sleep at the St David 's Nursing Home , Redcar , Cleveland . |
| 15 | A woman who waited more than an hour for an ambulance is to meet senior health managers to discuss the problem in Teesdale . |
| 16 | Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance . |
| 17 | 6 survived the crash but no one lived more than a few days . |
| 18 | We thought we detected more than a hint of irony in this answer , and we suspected that they were smugglers . |
| 19 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’ |
| 21 | There 'd been a lot of changes under the malais , I 'll give them that , even if most of the development was for reasons of military necessity and accomplished , like the Japanese for whom they had more than a sneaking admiration , with forced-draft labour . |
| 22 | She had already noticed that when he walked he limped more than a little , favouring his left leg , but his face had taken a greater hurt . |
| 23 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 24 | Even so , in his mid-sixties and preparing to retire , he created more than a literary stir with the publication of a series of poems in vers libre on contemporary themes ( Fascism , war , pacifism ) which , in 1944 , were published in a volume entitled Y Dwymyn ( The Fever ) ( 2nd edn. 1972 ) . |
| 25 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 26 | It achieved more than a four per cent swing in the West Midlands and won seven of its nine target seats , with only Coventry South West and Dudley West failing to fall . |
| 27 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 28 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 29 | ‘ He took more than a proper liking to me , and when I indicated that I was not interested in his advances he had me cast off … without a reference , so that I can not find suitable employment . ’ |
| 30 | His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , who having fled Tibet in 1959 — nine years after the country was occupied by China — lived in exile in India , welcomed the lifting of martial law but expressed the hope that it represented more than a superficial " public relations exercise " . |