Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] more [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boardwalk bounded along with more enthusiasm than grace at the head of the second group while two horses , including the favourite , made the running some three lengths clear of her . |
| 2 | After ten minutes , I lifted the shafts in a temper and pushed off in more pain than ever , singing , ‘ I just do n't trust you any more , Lord . |
| 3 | In those two years since his world fell apart on the paradise island of St Lucia when he left the England tour — ‘ I handled it really badly , ’ he reflects , ‘ I cried my eyes out ’ — Ellcock has put up with more adversity than most people expect in a lifetime . |
| 4 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 5 | One with a metal shaft and a moulded rubber handgrip will stand up to more abuse than one with a wooden shaft . |
| 6 | And incredibly , users at the top end are still crying out for more power because IBM failed to keep its promise of increasing performance at a rate that would keep it ahead of customer demand . |
| 7 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 8 | We readily agreed that the conversion had been carried out with more imagination than we would have been able to bring to it , but could we afford it ? |
| 9 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 10 | these two are also hoping to come back with more money than they went … you see along the route they 're raising funds hopefully as much as ten thousand pounds for the haemophilia society … |