Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 2 | He went into the shed where he kept the tractor and came back with his crowbar , with which he began levering more logs from the trailer to the ground . |
| 3 | However , Nigel enjoyed whingeing more than lying . |
| 4 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 5 | The government started printing more money soon after the savings-freeze and inflation has picked up again . |
| 6 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 7 | From 1984 , the company also started extending more of the costs of new factories and other investments into future accounting periods — in the belief that the mainframe business would pick up again and justify the move . |
| 8 | then I started working more and more and more |
| 9 | We were n't knuckling down but we started working more because we were n't fucking bossed about . |
| 10 | I noticed that the panel of ordinary people you gathered together recently to give Norman Lamont the benefit of their wisdom recommended ploughing more cash into public services . |
| 11 | They kept ordering more brandy and all seemed genuinely upset . |
| 12 | Their primary motive was ‘ for the good of the company ’ : that meant creating more efficiency in the productive process , cutting costs , not making unnecessary repairs , and so on , all with an eye on improving the corporate 's profitable position . |
| 13 | I kept putting more water in and it got so full . |
| 14 | This meant putting more manpower — three extra BP people , three extra processors from seismic contractor Geco-Prakla — and a lot more computer hardware on the boat , says Nunn . |
| 15 | Today , Rennie admitted making more threats to Mr Loren in a park in Cheltenham . |
| 16 | Alec liked sailing more than I. I got seasick . |
| 17 | Mr Browne said recovering more oil from proven fields could be one of the most efficient ways of keeping the North Sea in business . |
| 18 | He just continued writing more of the same stuff that was going on his album . |
| 19 | Robin Cook left promising more money . |