Example sentences of "more [conj] a child " in BNC.

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1 The musical follows Chaplin 's career from the time , when little more than a child , he appeared on the stage at an Aldershot theatre in 1894 when his mother — a music hall artist — lost her voice , until in 1972 the film industry recognised his tremendous creative work with the presentation of a Special Academy Award .
2 ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said .
3 She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes .
4 She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now .
5 After all , give someone who is barely more than a child a high-powered ‘ toy ’ and there is bound to be trouble when they go out to play with it .
6 The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child .
7 You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child .
8 ‘ And not much more than a child herself — only five years older than Tommy . ’
9 And the creature is surely little more than a child .
10 Raynor said , ‘ He had with him a young boy , little more than a child , it seemed .
11 He sat forward , squinting through a blood haze at what looked no more than a child .
12 But Kim was n't more than a child .
13 I am scarcely more than a child .
14 She did n't even exist in the equation , since , as far as he was concerned , she was little more than a child .
15 I was not much more than a child after all .
16 A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road .
17 ‘ And it 's not a fit place for a young girl to have a baby , ’ snapped McAllister , who had just seen that his patient was little more than a child , ‘ but she 's having one , all the same .
18 She 's barely more than a child , he told himself again .
19 She remembered Edmund , little more than a child , grave and courteous , thanking the Empress for her hospitality .
20 ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly .
21 For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’
22 For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age .
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