Example sentences of "he [verb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At tea breaks and lunchtime I never saw him eat more than a bar of chocolate or a biscuit . |
| 2 | He was fast reaching the conclusion that Cora-Beth wanted him to feel more than a friendly affection for her ; that perhaps she even wanted him to fall in love with her . |
| 3 | She had already noticed that when he walked he limped more than a little , favouring his left leg , but his face had taken a greater hurt . |
| 4 | That means Clarke will miss the Greenalls Lancashire Cup final in a fortnight , assuming Wigan beat Oldham in tomorrow 's semi-final and he receives more than a one-match ban . |
| 5 | Even so , in his mid-sixties and preparing to retire , he created more than a literary stir with the publication of a series of poems in vers libre on contemporary themes ( Fascism , war , pacifism ) which , in 1944 , were published in a volume entitled Y Dwymyn ( The Fever ) ( 2nd edn. 1972 ) . |
| 6 | But he wants more than a few measly hundred — and I aim to see he does not get it ! ’ |
| 7 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 8 | And now we look closer at Stan Gilligrew , he bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain well-known PR consultant . |
| 9 | He 's uglier than Corky , fatter than Phi and has less charm than Steve — in fact he bears more than a passing resemblance to Lucy ! |
| 10 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |
| 11 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 12 | ‘ He took more than a proper liking to me , and when I indicated that I was not interested in his advances he had me cast off … without a reference , so that I can not find suitable employment . ’ |
| 13 | And as Lewis ( who had already read through the statement ) watched his chief going through the same pages , he felt more than a little encouraged . |
| 14 | I fancied he looked more than a bit like Yves Montand , and told my friend so — long distance from Manchester . |
| 15 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 16 | Abel , for example , is obviously a Democrat , as he slipped more than a few anti-Reagan barbs into his presentation . |
| 17 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
| 18 | On a good day a driver could make over $2.75 ; if he has a month of good days he earns more than a civil servant . |
| 19 | If he was of Deiran royal descent , he ended more than a century of Bernician domination . |