Example sentences of "[verb] i more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 2 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 3 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 4 | After what that evil bastard did to me , you could n't possibly tell me anything about him that would make me more frightened of him than I already am . ’ |
| 5 | Hey , darlin' , do n't you fancy me more than that nigger ? |
| 6 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 7 | His self-pitying speech reveals his worthlessness : ( " I may say " " Alas , woe is me " " : I love you more than my life , you hate me more than a goat hates the knife . " ) |
| 8 | I heard Cortot play several concerts after the war , and these made me more aware than ever how important it is to give every ounce of yourself to Chopin if you want to play him well ! |
| 9 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 10 | But I knew they came from my convict , and I felt that having criminal friends made me more common than ever . |
| 11 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 12 | Prentice smiled and that made me more nervous than anything . |
| 13 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 14 | My preference is for the bigger man yet Andy Robinson has given me more difficult games that any other opponent . |
| 15 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 16 | They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before . |
| 17 | It does nothing useful , despite what you may think about screen saving , but it 's given me more entertainment watching it than any amount of television soaps — Johnny even celebrates major holidays at the right time ( assuming your PC 's clock is set correctly , of course ) . |
| 18 | Third , prayer in the light of the Bible and guided by the Holy Spirit will change me : change my attitudes , make me more like the person God wants me to be . |
| 19 | ‘ Make me more confident . ’ |
| 20 | He wanted to take me where the cold would hurt me and make me more miserable . |
| 21 | But according to Aunt Mary , what upset me more than anything , including the Father Christmas thing , was the business with the rainbow . |
| 22 | She 's not too unpleasant , even if she does pretend to like me more than I know she really does . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you consider me more dangerous than whoever sent that letter ? ’ |
| 24 | Please send me more information about schizophrenia and the Fellowship , including a publications list , covenant form , and details of how to join . |
| 25 | With my new label of ‘ blind ’ came the object which was to stigmatize me more , a shiny new , long white cane . |
| 26 | He needs me more than I need him . |
| 27 | ‘ He needs me more than you do , ’ she said , as if that was an explanation . |
| 28 | ‘ For the moment she needs me more than you do , ’ he said at last . |
| 29 | Yeah and it causes me more washing up which I 've only just finished . |
| 30 | Nothing makes me more downcast than the ‘ uplifting ’ , nothing elevates me more than the de-jected . |