Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , on many occasions , Maisie talked more than Henry . |
| 2 | Marx 's interpretation of the Paris Commune was , as Lichtheim noted , to become a Leninist shibboleth ( Lichtheim 1964 , p. 119 ) .2 Indeed , Lenin did more than Marx to contrast the administrative principles of the Commune with the bureaucratic workings of the bourgeois state . |
| 3 | ‘ Constanza belonged more than Anna . |
| 4 | Rarity was what Brückner valued more than gems and gold . |
| 5 | Diego Maradona , the only player in Italy to earn more than Gullit , played in Napoli 's Uefa Cup third-round home leg against Werder Bremen yesterday after taking painkillers for a back injury , but was largely ineffective as his side lost 3-2 . |
| 6 | Coghill did more than heap praises on Dymer . |
| 7 | At the fête Stepan Verkhovensky , the man of the 1840s , makes a speech arguing that Shakespeare matters more than boots , and Raphael more than petroleum ; whipping himself up in his peroration to declare that mankind can get on without bread but not without beauty . |
| 8 | Lesley gets more than Gerrard does n't she ? |
| 9 | Well do you do you know Geoff , Ashley weighs more than Jonathan . |
| 10 | When Katherine returns unexpectedly to do battle for Jack as well as the Deal , Tess needs more than power dressing to win . |
| 11 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |