Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] more [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |
| 2 | They become so excited during this gang warfare that humans can approach them much more closely than at other times . |
| 3 | If the system does n't come up with them much more convincingly than it is doing at present , then they will probably be found outside . |
| 4 | I suppose I do n't love you any more here than when we 're walking together in Ladbroke Grove — how romantic that might sound to a foreigner , by the way — and yet it seems as if I do . ’ |
| 5 | Express trains come rushing down on you far more quickly than you imagine and more than one hundred people are killed every year in the United Kingdom doing this . |
| 6 | As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended . |
| 7 | Rose shared those sort of days with him even more extravagantly than if the days had been her own . |
| 8 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 9 | ‘ That is putting it rather more strongly than I would have done . |
| 10 | We conceived it much more narrowly than Jim did . |
| 11 | We 're looking for any trace of clothing , it 's a big area with a long wall and the mounted police can cover it much more quickly than officers on foot |
| 12 | My right hon. and hon. Friends could not describe it any more succinctly than that . |
| 13 | At least that 's the way it is with me , if I can see something in operation I can understand it far more quickly than when someone tries to describe it ’ |
| 14 | When we see such intelligence and feeling among creatures which outwardly resemble ourselves — chimpanzees and other primates — we accept and can recognize it far more readily than we do among more alien creatures such as whales and dolphins . |
| 15 | The possibility of penal cancellation charges in the public domain is a rumour ; I put it no more strongly than that . |