Example sentences of "[det] than [indef pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | experience of , of this than anybody else around this table . |
| 2 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 3 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 4 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It has hurt him more than anything else since his release . |
| 6 | The thing that Constance loved perhaps more than anything else about living in the south was the sun . |
| 7 | More than anything else in the world , he wanted to see that muscular hairy body hanging from a bloody meat-hook in the cellar among the turkey carcasses and slaughtered pigs . |
| 8 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
| 9 | I want to be yours more than anything else in the world , and it 's not too late . |
| 10 | The gentle-hearted David was shocked by the cold vehemence between these two people whom he loved more than anything else in the whole world . |
| 11 | More than anything else in the world she wanted him to touch her again , but already some of the unadulterated pleasure was slipping away and the doubts were beginning to reassert themselves . |
| 12 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |
| 13 | We clung together for warmth and vowed to love one another more than anyone else for all time . |
| 14 | It seems to have hit us more than anyone else for some reason . |
| 15 | But there was one man to talk to in Israel who knew more than anyone else about the land of Palestine . |
| 16 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 17 | Simon Carmody probably mentions the word ‘ vibe ’ more than anyone else in Dublin . |
| 18 | You would never guess it , she is so modest , but she knows more than anyone else in England on how the eighteenth century reader regarded Scandinavia … . |
| 19 | I love him more than anyone else in the world , more than myself ! ’ |
| 20 | As I said in answer to an earlier question , over recent years we have agreed 19 directives on the social dimension — more than anyone else in the Community — and we have implemented them . |