Example sentences of "[det] than anything [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days .
2	I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery .
3	But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’
4	‘ It has hurt him more than anything else since his release .
5	The thing that Constance loved perhaps more than anything else about living in the south was the sun .
6	More than anything else in the world , he wanted to see that muscular hairy body hanging from a bloody meat-hook in the cellar among the turkey carcasses and slaughtered pigs .
7	If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed .
8	I want to be yours more than anything else in the world , and it 's not too late .
9	The gentle-hearted David was shocked by the cold vehemence between these two people whom he loved more than anything else in the whole world .
10	More than anything else in the world she wanted him to touch her again , but already some of the unadulterated pleasure was slipping away and the doubts were beginning to reassert themselves .
11	The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world .

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