Example sentences of "in more [noun] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 2 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 3 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 4 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 5 | There were two people aboard — Greg Martin , the owner , a financier with a finger in more pies than you 'd care to name , and a woman , Paula Varna , wife of Hugo Varna the fashion designer . |
| 6 | The balance sheets and the functions of various financial intermediaries are examined in more detail than they are here in Carter and Partington ( 1984 ) and Struthers and Speight ( 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Unhappily to record , this note of approval is not struck uniformly throughout the Diaries which describe , in more detail than I shall seek to emulate , my participation in the famous ‘ pay beds ’ negotiations . |
| 8 | Cairns-Smith discusses , in more detail than I can accommodate here , early uses that his clay-crystal replicators might have had for proteins , sugars and , most important of all , nucleic acids like RNA . |
| 9 | The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone . |
| 10 | I was in more pain than I think I have ever experienced . |
| 11 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 12 | Oh right , you mean it 's broken in more ways than we previously thought . |
| 13 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 14 | So you see , my dear , you are a pleasure in more ways than you know ! ’ |
| 15 | Swell and ripen And the fruit must be able to swell and ripen and achieve their flavour in more sunshine than we can generally expect in August and September . |
| 16 | I 've fought in more battles than you 'd be likely to believe . ’ |
| 17 | You try making anything out of that and you 'll find yourself up to your neck in more trouble than you can handle ! ’ |