Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cinemagoers meanwhile got to see more of the ‘ bum ’ than he intended . |
| 2 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 3 | Soon Endill got to know more of the library . |
| 4 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 5 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 6 | In a hard-hitting editorial , the journal 's editors challenge the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe government 's new Economic Structural Adjustment Programme ( ESAP ) which promised to create more jobs and opportunities for ordinary people . |
| 7 | that erm when , in , in all , all the uprisings , the peasant uprisings , when the communists actually tried to propose more than just rent reductions then the peasants tended to lose interest at that . |
| 8 | He promised to send more money home as soon as he got paid , and he wanted her to look after his puppy , which he guessed by now would be a full-grown collie . |
| 9 | He promised to send more police to the townships to restore law and order . |
| 10 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 11 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 12 | AVS version 4.0 is priced at $7,500 for a single user licence — version 5 , promised to have more multi-user facilities , follows next spring . |
| 13 | In the 1950s three Swedish players — Gunnar Gren , Gunnar Nordhal and Niels Liedholm , the ‘ Gre-No-Li ’ trio — helped to bring more triumphs . |
| 14 | The US agreed to sell more grain to the relatively grainless USSR . |
| 15 | ‘ So there we are , ’ he went on , and his voice seemed to carry more than ever . |
| 16 | He seemed to lose more than he gained . ’ |
| 17 | The declivities seemed to promise more ease than the heights because of the heavier shade and the caressing sound of the small brooks which ran clear and sparkling across their path . |
| 18 | Several people voiced the suspicion that a frantic battle of the sound systems was taking place as companies vied to attract more customers . |
| 19 | They seemed to reflect more of their owner 's personality . |
| 20 | And although Eliot was only one member of a jury which included among others Robert Lowell , W. H. Auden , Conrad Aiken and Katherine Anne Porter , he was singled out for abuse : in fact , he seemed to receive more than Pound himself . |
| 21 | With every horror — the Poison Feast of 1907 being one of the most infamous — Castle Drachenfels seemed to draw more vileness unto itself . |
| 22 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |
| 23 | The NEB itself seemed to imply more than prospecting might be going on : ‘ It has been suggested that some of the investigations might have been more extensive than might normally be expected . |
| 24 | Fleetwood Mac just seemed to get more than our fair share … ’ |
| 25 | We seemed to get more than our fair share of bad weather on that tour apart from an idyllic three weeks in the West country . |
| 26 | But she only seemed to uncover more and more misery and misfortune whichever way she turned . |
| 27 | Things seemed to have more of a sense that they were leading somewhere . |
| 28 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 29 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 30 | The Evening News reporter seemed to have more exact information than either myself or the War Office . |