Example sentences of "[pers pn] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 2 | Well , if you want my advice , I 'd say make him more than a friend , if you get my meaning . |
| 3 | Next is Aled Williams of Bridgend , whose consistency in domestic matches , which might not be transferred to internationals , should have earned him more than a replacement honour ( out of position ) against Namibia in 1990 . |
| 4 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 5 | It struck him as odd that the death of this unknown mongrel should , for a moment , anger him more than the killing of Lorrimer . |
| 6 | Maxwell still thinks he can run this himself , pay up and leave with his daughter rather than keep his money and have the case come to court so that his affairs might have to be examined — that could cost him more than the ransom . |
| 7 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 8 | The three characters are portrayed with vivid detail and lively humour : two sailors who flirt with a girl but find her more than a match for either of them . |
| 9 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 10 | Doctors have given her more than a fighting chance and I just have that to cling to . ’ |
| 11 | The romanticism of the period upset her more than the blood . |
| 12 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 13 | It took us more than an hour to make our way down those 47 double flights of metal stairs , but we were young and healthy and we enjoyed steins of lager when we finally reached a ground level bar . |