Example sentences of "[pron] more than [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |
| 2 | Of those left behind , none more than he knew the awesome dangers implicit in the recall signal from G9 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sick last season has ended , but I 'm looking forward to the next one more than I have any season . |
| 4 | ‘ So long as he ( McCoist ) scores one more than he got in Bruges , I 'll be happy , ’ remarked the manager of the goal machine that stalled two weeks ago . |
| 5 | She must wrap up her head well and she must protect her feet with something more than her felt shoes … |
| 6 | The Great Detective is a figure of myth , something more than he seems , an example to the world . |
| 7 | Besides , he may not know about you ; his purpose may be nothing more than he says . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was nothing more than I deserved ! ’ |
| 9 | In the darkness he said : ‘ I know nothing more than I have told you , but I blame myself for what happened . |
| 10 | She deceives herself more than she deceives anyone else . |
| 11 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 12 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
| 13 | What did he do for these other people and do they actually miss him more than they do themselves ? |
| 14 | On principle , Ferdinand refuses , and the head maltster realizes that this threatens him more than it does the writer . |
| 15 | What concerned him more than it did George was that the child would be a boy . |
| 16 | And so I could not be certain whether the sight of his old home depressed him more than it inspired him . |
| 17 | I had laughed at him more than I had laughed at Ahmed . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't love him more than I do , ’ she replied . |
| 19 | Alex talked to him more than I did . |
| 20 | Now they keep saying , mummy you always give him more than you give us ! |
| 21 | Yet he was her father , and she was aware , in this instant , that she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone on earth except herself ; more than husband , far more than children . |
| 22 | At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life . |
| 23 | It seemed to shake him more than she had anticipated . |
| 24 | She loved him more than she had ever loved anyone , animal or human , more than she loved Mo , more than she loved Mr Sargent . |
| 25 | He had heard about Louise 's move and the thought of losing Constance had affected him more than he had imagined possible . |
| 26 | The sight of Dalziel and Pascoe had disconcerted him more than he had cared to show . |
| 27 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 28 | Perhaps Arabella 's death upset him more than he let on . ’ |
| 29 | Even Karen felt a tiny sense of loss , which amused her more than it upset her . |
| 30 | To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo . |