Example sentences of "more [subord] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raskolnikov is one of the others , though it 's only through the long crime-and-punishment process that he comes to understand this : he had ‘ wanted something more ’ — more than our mere-existence rain . |
| 2 | He has agreed to pay us more than our usual commission — well , I explained , of course , that we would need ample compensation to lend him one of our girls for such unusual services , and I must say — ’ |
| 3 | They 're stealing our weapons , you do n't seem to grasp that — ; we 'll be outnumbered and we 'll need more than our superior skills — we 'll need the Almighty on our side . ’ |
| 4 | In saving agriculture , we are saving more than our own economy . |
| 5 | If we all tried to see things from more than our own view point , the world would be a better place . |
| 6 | Like the mouse in the poem , when we consume more than our fair share of the earth 's resources , we not only force our brothers and sisters in other countries to go without , but we damage ourselves as well . |
| 7 | Fleetwood Mac just seemed to get more than our fair share … ’ |
| 8 | We seemed to get more than our fair share of bad weather on that tour apart from an idyllic three weeks in the West country . |