Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] than [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the reign of ‘ Farmer George ’ that drainage became more than ever in vogue , ‘ improvement ’ being all the rage . |
| 2 | The NY-5 loved being tuned to dropped D , settled more than happily into DADGAD , and did n't even have a problem coping with a low C on the bottom string in conjunction with a heavy plastic thumbpick . |
| 3 | How would you feel if someone flew more than halfway around the world to say to you , ‘ I am at a loss . |
| 4 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 5 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 6 | He looked more than ever as if stamped out of metal . |
| 7 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 8 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 9 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 10 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 11 | The prevalence of use increased more than two-fold from around 1979 to around 1989 . |
| 12 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | It was bound to worry her , as he was still a patient and I felt she had more than enough on her plate already without my adding anything . |
| 14 | As Fabia saw it then , if she did n't want her sister to heap coals of fire on her head when she got back — and Cara had more than enough on her plate at the moment — then she was going to have to be really pushy and go and ring Ven Gajdusek 's doorbell . |
| 15 | At thirteen she felt trapped by the system of growing into a woman , which seemed to be separating them , and longed more than ever to be his son . |
| 16 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |