Example sentences of "[pers pn] have more [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 2 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 3 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 4 | Now I 've more orders than I can handle . |
| 5 | I have more say than the people I look out on , nomads , tide-people . |
| 6 | Why simply that ‘ as an accomplished individual you have more stringent and exacting expectations ’ ( a banker 's way of saying he hopes I have more money than brains ) . |
| 7 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation . |
| 9 | I have more power than you . ’ |
| 10 | I have more reason than most to do that , having been shot 10 times by the IRA . |
| 11 | Yet , paradoxically , in another way she has more experience than most . |
| 12 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 13 | I am sure she has more cards than anyone else on her ward . |
| 14 | She has more servants than she knows what to do with . |
| 15 | You 've more stories than I do . |
| 16 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
| 17 | Surely she had more pride than that ? |
| 18 | ‘ Is that the soup for — ’ she had more difficulty than she 'd expected in saying the name — ‘ for Marion Maclean ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
| 21 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 22 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 23 | If your children have left home and you have more space than you need , you could consider taking in lodgers , either as paying guests or , if your property lends itself to the creation of a separate flatlet , in a tenancy capacity . |
| 24 | As a result women themselves might well come to believe ( incorrectly ) that ‘ it is written in the Guru Nanak 's Granth Sahib ( the holy book of the Sikhs ) that if you have bad Karma you have more girls than boys ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ You have more twists than a snake ! |
| 26 | ‘ You have more grit than that . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We had more reviews than for any festival in the last fifteen years . |
| 29 | We met more and more frequently as the months went by , until we had more drafts than the windows of a stone cottage . |
| 30 | Then we have more equations than unknowns . |