Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] more than [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months .
2 It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class .
3 I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two
4 Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I .
5 And obviously she had done more than hold her own .
6 Then she had found out about the baby and realised the truth — that they had done more than draw comfort from each other as mere friends .
7 It was neither homely nor luxurious and Charlotte doubted if Maurice had done more than visit to check the mail in recent months .
8 Fifty miles north , Sarah Morgan had just finished serving a lunch that no one had done more than pick at .
9 Doctor Braby , hard-worked GP and police surgeon to the district , had done more than confirm the fact of death on this occasion , he had called immediate attention to certain peculiarities about the body , and boldly essayed a guess at the length of time it had actually been in the water .
10 The tall , blond player who had joined West Ham at the tender of age of 17 some four years earlier , had done more than choose the right moment to emerge , he 'd nicely anticipated the coming of the right man , Alf Ramsey , who took over the England management shortly afterwards and began to forge the national side which would win the World Cup in 1966 and in which Moore would play an anchor role .
11 So , after a time , she began to think — when he was so collectedly friendly — that she had imagined more than had really happened , or had imagined it all .
12 Inevitably this procedure , in the early years , worked less than smoothly , with budgets drawn up hurriedly under the pressure of reorganisation , and the Ministry being quite glad on occasion if they were exceeded , since this simply meant that the industry had achieved more than expected with limited physical resources .
13 The results of last year 's survey have done more than affirm the style and future of the magazine .
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