Example sentences of "[pron] more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As with TA , unless you are fond of playing with computer programmes ask someone more expert to set up CC for you .
2 Topics will include : Ways of dealing with stress , how breathing is affected by stress , making ourselves more stress resistant by self observation as a whole person , and a practical relaxation session .
3 We can only ask ourselves more questions , and the answers we supply will reflect our own psychology .
4 As we learn to give ourselves more time to pause before activity , we will slowly become more and more aware of the warning signals that our body gives us when it is under stress .
5 I 've got plenty more teeth in my mouth ! ’
6 No point making a fuss ; plenty more women with young kinds anxious for work , as Mr Silver will explain to silence the muttering that occasionally drowns even the machines .
7 And there were plenty more deals .
8 Organiser Kevin Horton said there was plenty more support as yet untapped .
9 ‘ There are plenty more fishes in the sea , yes ? ’
10 It is because there is so much potential in individuals that even the largest degree of stretch that we can put on them still leaves plenty more capacity , provided it is applied gradually , like stretching elastic ; and I believe this is a prime feature of an organization which utilizes the skills of its people .
11 There were plenty more jobs to come back to when you had spent all your money and caught hepatitis .
12 Condescendingly , like an agony aunt or something , he adds : ‘ There are plenty more fish in the sea . ’
13 ‘ There 's plenty more fish in the sea , ’ she said .
14 ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea .
15 ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea .
16 And we got plenty more attention , too , when Davis went out into the Crucible Theatre arena as world champion for the first time and promptly got slaughtered 10-1 by a complete unknown by the name of Tony Knowles .
17 There are plenty more villains .
18 Bill has plenty more photographs and stories about his walk and if it proves popular hopes to bring out a hardback guidebook .
19 Her third novel , Another Sort of is due on the shelves by September and she has plenty more ideas in the offing .
20 PLENTY MORE TICKETS FROM MY COLLECTION
21 Few are in any doubt that there is plenty more pain to come , and it may well be that the interim management is now expected to clear the decks , steel itself to announce another enormous net loss for the current quarter and let the new chief executive and team come in with a clean sheet .
22 The real Mr Barnet , of course , is Fry himself , who says he gave himself more chance of being hit by a sniper 's bullet than getting his job back .
23 He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived .
24 Before CD ‘ thought of Mr Pickwick ’ and wrote the first number , he had already gained for himself more freedom in the conduct of his story than Seymour and his publishers had originally intended , but the sudden death of Seymour when he had completed only 3 of the 4 illustrations for No. ii , and his replacement by the young artist Hablot K. Browne ( who soon adopted the signature ‘ Phiz ’ to parallel CD 's ‘ Boz ’ ) , contributed to the dominance of text over illustrations : from No. iii on the plates were reduced to 2 per number and the pages of text increased from 26 to 32 .
25 To give himself more time he asked the Bookman if he would help him with his homework .
26 If only he could give himself more time .
27 Pöhl said that his decision had been made to give himself more time for his family and private interests and was prompted by " neither resignation nor frustration " .
28 The Englishman nodded and poured himself more coffee .
29 Then he continued to watch her as he poured himself more coffee .
30 Chatterton poured himself more bourbon , then put the bottle within my reach on the binnacle shelf .
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