Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] more than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night , bumping into the doorway , and stepping over a colleague , I made my way out into the sleet , the toilets all being occupied , and as I crouched , steadying my cheek against the cold planks , I peered through the reeking shadows of Auschwitz and saw that the nearest ruins were fuming more than ever and had even begun to glow . |
| 2 | When United fans were kicking more than just sand castles down in Bournemouth , they wore T-shirts bearing the sinister motto ‘ Nobody Likes Us And We Do n't Care ’ . |
| 3 | A psalmist in Biblical times wrote of lifting one 's eyes to the hills but on the day we visited Croagh Patrick on the western seaboard of Co Mayo , Ireland thousands were doing more than just look . |
| 4 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 5 | Even middle-school students , a number of articles declared , were doing more than merely ‘ talking love ’ . |
| 6 | Now , almost a quarter of a century later , she was suffering more than ever , because she could not forget , and because she needed to feel close to the ones she still loved . |
| 7 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 8 | She felt that she was longing more than ever for it to end so that she and John could spend all their time together . |