Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joyce retired on April 2 after 14 years service and was delighted not only to receive gifts , including a hi-fi system , but also to be wined and dined on more than one occasion before her departure . |
| 2 | The photography services supplied nearly 3,000 images for use in publications and television programmes , and hired out more than 500 slides . |
| 3 | Last year alone they had over 400,000 winners and paid out more than £40 million . |
| 4 | Shoppers in St Helens cheered and applauded as more than 3,000 protesters , many of them waving banners and placards , marched through the town centre in a bid to save the doomed Parkside Colliery , on Saturday . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 6 | Once you are wed , and known once more as my daughter , the rest will soon be forgotten . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The French mistletoe ( exactly the same species ) is cut earlier and dries out more because of the distance it comes , ’ he says . |
| 8 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 9 | When you try and take away more than you 've got . |
| 10 | A NINE-year-old boy who went on a six-month crime spree and carried out more than 50 thefts , went back to school yesterday after police were forced to let him walk free . |
| 11 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |