Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] more [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger ( 5.1 ) : I got more hair than you , Rodney . |
| 2 | I affected more fear than I felt . |
| 3 | I swotted more bluebottles than anyone else ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 6 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 7 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 8 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 9 | She only normally , she said all I ever get normally is Elizabeth on a pass and she got more passes than anything . |
| 10 | She asked more questions than I did . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
| 16 | Surely she had more pride than that ? |
| 17 | ‘ Is that the soup for — ’ she had more difficulty than she 'd expected in saying the name — ‘ for Marion Maclean ? |
| 18 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 19 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
| 20 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 21 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 22 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 23 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 24 | But I do n't mind confessing that after a few honeymoon months we stalled more times than we took off … if you take my meaning . ’ |
| 25 | But , with the Cabinet decision and the Chancellor party to it , it was harder for them , and I think we had more success than most other governments in doing this just because I knew the background . |
| 26 | We had more reviews than for any festival in the last fifteen years . |
| 27 | We met more and more frequently as the months went by , until we had more drafts than the windows of a stone cottage . |
| 28 | They got more votes than Labour in the county elections , but they won fewer seats . |
| 29 | Women in tweed overcoats , men in dark melton overcoats — they seemed more overcoats than people ; the sort of people whose personalities are not large enough to dominate their outdoor clothes . |
| 30 | They collected more bottles than they had accounted for . |