Example sentences of "he [vb past] more than [art] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 ) .
3	‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee .
4	Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting .
5	Every week he needed more than the week before , and to get a full hit he had to inject .
6	‘ 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 . ’
7	For this moment he mattered more than the boys .
8	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 .
9	I fancied he looked more than a bit like Yves Montand , and told my friend so — long distance from Manchester .
10	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 .
11	Abel , for example , is obviously a Democrat , as he slipped more than a few anti-Reagan barbs into his presentation .
12	He had more than an hour to fill in before the meal : he had a maid bring him beer .
13	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 .
14	If he was of Deiran royal descent , he ended more than a century of Bernician domination .

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