Example sentences of "[verb] with more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following afternoon , as she approached the laundry , she wondered what was in store ; and dread , mixed with more than a grain of excitement , gnawed at her innards . |
| 2 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 3 | Rory grimaced , remembering with more than a touch of bitterness Candy 's original theory that Adam had tried to spoil her pleasure in singing because on stage she was public property , and he wanted her for himself . |
| 4 | ‘ Pardon me if I write vehemently , ’ he apologized disingenuously to Poole in his second letter , adding with more than a hint of picturesque excess : |
| 5 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 6 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 7 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 8 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 9 | fewer lone mothers worked part-time , about a quarter , compared with more than a third of married mothers . |
| 10 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 11 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 12 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 13 | ‘ You might enjoy that kind of thing , ’ he said with more than a touch of irritation , ‘ but I have other matters to see to , more important than shifting a few papers about . ’ |
| 14 | The rise of the ‘ casual ’ — the smartly-dressed stand supporter with a penchant for calling cards , scrap books and well-organised mega-violence spiced with more than a hint of racist overtones — seems a perfect symbol for the times . |
| 15 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |
| 16 | Believe it , brothers and sisters , no other band anywhere can so consistently articular what 's little short of a full-scale earthquake — one that 's flavoured with more than the odd hint of Isaac Hayes , James Brown , Blue Cheer , Swans and vintage Black Sabbath ! |