Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 2 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 3 | It was easy enough to demand racial equality , fair distribution of the wealth of the world , or equal rights for women : none of those would happen tomorrow , and none of them involved more than the most superficial cosmetic surgery to make yourself credible . |
| 4 | Ulph ( 1987 ) points out that those who earn close to the tax threshold will enjoy little or no income effect from the tax cut so that the substitution effect should dominate , causing them to work more hours . |
| 5 | They should let them buy more land and do more council building . |
| 6 | You do n't like me to know more than you . |
| 7 | Looming over them obscuring more than half the sky , the bow of the tanker swept by their stern , pushing a rolling black mound of water . |
| 8 | He did his usual practice stint , during which I endured more jokes from the other caddies and from some of the players about my sudden fame . |
| 9 | Later on in my schooling life I made more friends but there has been a lot of falling outs , but we always make up again . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'ope it 's not damaged permanent , ’ she said , ‘ I do n't know what I 'd do if I 'ad more 'ard luck and found I could n't ever walk again . ’ |
| 11 | more of them , not only the young people , of course not , but I mean more of them , I know there always were some of more than there was before it has changed every value , even moral values and everything like that , have changed a lot the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 12 | I mean more than the nuclear umbrella and the massive and rapid reinforcement capability that America offers within a NATO structure . |
| 13 | Well I suppose more salted meat I mean more home home butching and erm making bread I suppose or the womenfolk were likely baking every day . |
| 14 | So you know I mean more than that by all means , you know , er so much the better , you know y the more the merrier but erm certainly you know kind of it 's a good idea to at least try and get that many erm |
| 15 | Well of course , no , I mean more can be done all the time er clearly there are some quite difficult areas about priority and where people would choose to invest their money , but certainly in the long run AIDS H I V is a crucial issue facing society , drugs misuse or drugs use is an absolutely integral part of that whole problem . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , I eat more than my fair share of oysters , and filch one of her lobster claws after I 've eaten my own . |
| 17 | ‘ I lose more telephone directories that way . ’ |
| 18 | I suffer more from a feeling of guilt , perhaps than men do . |
| 19 | Roger ( 5.1 ) : I got more hair than you , Rodney . |
| 20 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 21 | I started off by smoking it and then , when I injected it , I found I got more of a hit , y'know what I mean . |
| 22 | I started off by smoking it , but later when I was injectin' it , I found I got more of a hit , y'know what I mean . |
| 23 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 24 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 25 | I , I got more of this soup . |
| 26 | I got more chance of catching a fish now cos we 're going Saturday and Sunday ! |
| 27 | I expected more of you but perhaps you deserve a second chance . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I hate more and more those pictures which are light all over , ’ he wrote . |
| 29 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 30 | She could say , ‘ I feel I need more notice if you ca n't make it . |