Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did n't he want more than just sailing ? ’ |
| 2 | He has more than likely planned the expedition for the half of the day when it is not Northumberland Avenue 's turn for heating . |
| 3 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 4 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 5 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 6 | He looked more than ever as if stamped out of metal . |
| 7 | Ruskin started writing when he was seven and did n't stop until he was 70 ; in between he wrote more than almost anyone else in the 19th century , which was not a time of literary reticence . |
| 8 | But STV drama boss Nigel Pickard said he wanted more than just a lookalike . |
| 9 | No , he wanted more than just her body , although what and why he did n't care to analyse . |