Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His opening compliment to the girl may backfire : ( " In all this land I [ know ] not one maiden that I love more than thee … " ) |
| 4 | ‘ There 's nothing on this earth that I want more than to make love to you , but , if I do , later you 'll regret it . ’ |
| 5 | There is surely something very odd about insisting that I need more than the fact that I love cats and hate dogs to decide which to have about the house . |
| 6 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 7 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 8 | Not that she spent more than half an hour each night in her own dressing-room . |
| 9 | Cos she was something one night , well said yeah that she wants more than , he wants more than two . |
| 10 | But I think , ’ he said , turning to Marian , ‘ that you know more than I. ’ |
| 11 | Keep your eyes open , so that you see more than what is just in front of you . |
| 12 | Now I guess from the affluent audience we 've got here today that you pay more than that because you 're living in higher rated value properties I guess . |
| 13 | Is it so important that we become more than platonic lovers ? ’ |
| 14 | Of the RECORDS Laurie Bruce says that we had more than ever before , with some real treasures among the ‘ 78's , and more long-playing records in really mint condition . |
| 15 | Not that we have more than our ration , you know , in spite of the shop ! |
| 16 | My hon. Friend will concede that we have more than lived up to our promise that our Army of the future , as the Select Committee report said , will be outstandingly well equipped . |
| 17 | ‘ I think , ’ she went on , ‘ now that we have more than half the land — and most of the best part — you must come out into the open . |
| 18 | Leonard believed that they interconnected more than he is given credit for ; he chose to speak of that one within , though not absolutely . |
| 19 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 20 | For the rest , the euphoria that they experienced more than matched the unpleasantness . |
| 21 | Blumler also suggested that parliamentary television was markedly bipartisan , paying relatively little attention to the Liberal Democrats and Members of other smaller parties , but analysis of the actuality contributions of various participants shows that they received more than their proportionate strength in the House ; Liberal Democrats were given 4.3% of total actuality contributions and took part on 7.8% of contribution occasions . |
| 22 | A team is a small group ( 6 to 8 people is a typical size ) who co-operate together in such a way that they accomplish more than the sum total of the individuals . |
| 23 | It was the laughter and companionship that they missed more than anything when they retired . |
| 24 | Between 1964 and 1990 , the number of births outside marriage increased from 63 thousand to 200 thousand , while the proportion of all births that they represent more than quadrupled from 7% to 29% . |
| 25 | Corporate life is changing as companies realize that they need more than young managers who demand high starting salaries , work a standard day , keep in line , and concern themselves about security . |
| 26 | And it was the one time that it mattered more than anything else . ’ |
| 27 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 28 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 29 | His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , who having fled Tibet in 1959 — nine years after the country was occupied by China — lived in exile in India , welcomed the lifting of martial law but expressed the hope that it represented more than a superficial " public relations exercise " . |
| 30 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |