Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1975 , for each week during which you earned more than a minimum amount , a stamp went on your national insurance card . |
| 2 | There were not many foods in short supply — only sugar , which we missed more than anything else . |
| 3 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 4 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 5 | I realize now that that is what I want more than anything else . |
| 6 | ‘ What I want more than anything is to have somewhere I can look forward to . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Alex , what I need more than an apology is an explanation . ’ |
| 8 | It at least described some kind of emotional response from Damian , and that was what she needed more than anything else . |
| 9 | What she wanted more than anything was the relaunching of her career , which had flagged since the Mamas & the Papas split up . |
| 10 | ( ii ) The overview-discovering what you want More than any other stage of our strategy , the Overview saves you time . |
| 11 | They learn , as Elizabeth said earlier , you know , we 're models and children learn more by what we do more than what we preach , so you know we do have to repair what we did n't learn maybe earlier on . |
| 12 | What they want more than anything else is to understand why this has happened to them . |
| 13 | In their third and last encounter Porfiry tells Raskolnikov that what he needs more than anything is somebody to be — ‘ life and a definite position ’ . |
| 14 | In his romantic intransigence that was what he wanted more than anything . |