Example sentences of "[vb past] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nobody wants the culprits caught more than the victim . |
| 2 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 3 | ‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee . |
| 4 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 5 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 6 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 7 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 8 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 9 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 10 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 11 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 12 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 13 | Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed ! |
| 14 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 15 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 16 | With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell . |
| 17 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 18 | Radio signalling made more than a debut , helping toward the achievement of one of the decade 's miracles , not only the survival but with greater expectation of long life of much of the Highland lines and many more . |
| 19 | No one realised more than the Queen that her children were deeply flawed and that the monarchy might be better served if that generation was skipped altogether . |
| 20 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 21 | Some 16 per cent of trees lost more than a quarter of their leaves or needles last year , although Swiss forests are better off than their German neighbours , where the figure was 27 per cent [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 22 | With the engines as well , this train covered more than a quarter of a mile standing still . |
| 23 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 24 | The couple 's romance started more than a year ago when Stuart wed Lisa 's mother . |
| 25 | It all started more than a decade ago from this barn on an isolated farm in South Shropshire . |
| 26 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 27 | She needed more than a non-committal grunt in answer to her outpourings . |
| 28 | Every week he needed more than the week before , and to get a full hit he had to inject . |
| 29 | It offered more than the Curragh . |
| 30 | Leith felt more than a bit dissatisfied with life when she went to bed that night . |