Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game . |
| 2 | But he had wished for more than that . |
| 3 | Priests in the Tambov area , the centre of peasant revolt in 1921 , reported in 1922 that church attendance had dropped by more than half as compared with pre-1914 . |
| 4 | The Tokyo stock market had dropped by more than a fifth in 1990 , with the Nikkei average falling on April 3 by 1,978.38 points to 28,002.07 , a drop of 6.6 per cent , the second largest one-day fall in the exchange 's history and the steepest decline since the crash of October 1987 . |
| 5 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 6 | March had come in more lamb than lion , there were windflowers in the woods , and the first primroses , unburned by frost , undashed and unmired by further rain , were just opening . |
| 7 | After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " . |
| 8 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 9 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 10 | He was pumped full of sedation , but none of it seemed to work and Gilbert had decided against more in case he died . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone , ’ he said , trusting her ; knowing that she had acted from more than self-interest . |
| 12 | Patients with adenocarcinoma had smoked for more years in total ( median 38.5 , range 4–54 years ) than patients with CLO ( median 29.5 , range 6–55 years ) ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 13 | Patients with adenocarcinoma had smoked for more years in total ( median 38.5 , range 4–54 years ) than CLO patients ( median 29.5 , range 6–55 years ) ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 14 | Round the corner to our right was what we journalists liked to refer to as ‘ No-Man's-Land ’ , into which no man had ventured for more than a year . |
| 15 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 16 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 17 | Following your excellent exposé of our ambiguous one , and Danny Baker 's candid assessment of the Boy In The Bubble , I had hoped for more than the arselicking articles printed . |
| 18 | ‘ I had hoped for more , I must confess , Rain . |
| 19 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 20 | Dunlop ( DUP ) started the election at Stage I fairly lowdown but was elected sixth in Stage Xl in front of Lindsay and Morrison ( both VUPP ) who had started with more votes than Dunlop . |
| 21 | She was a fiercely proud , independent woman and these qualities had passed in more than abundant measure to her daughter . |
| 22 | It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique . |
| 23 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 24 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 25 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
| 26 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 27 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |
| 28 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |