Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to shake him more than she had anticipated . |
| 2 | Until then he would seem to trust him more . |
| 3 | Moreover , the cost was beginning to worry him more and more . |
| 4 | The colours and smells of the market were sharp : the oranges and plantain , the T-shirts , toys and tea towels bright and startling — the smells almost drowned me ; and every week I visited her I learned to trust her more , dared to feel more of my feelings , instead of eating them away . |
| 5 | At last , out of the silence , Moran noticed McQuaid 's glass was empty and attempted to pour him more whiskey . |
| 6 | Small moans of protest sounded in her throat but they seemed to excite him more , because he growled with satisfaction , his lips branding hers with heat . |
| 7 | You 'll have to identify him more than that what did he look , apart from the fact , what did he look like ? |
| 8 | Lovely , very , very , good indeed , that , that is there now , sounds very good , just , erm , a few little things , would you try to give me more on the fifth finger , the E , the E flat , there , think of a crescendo , to that , want that come out , then , then it will , erm , I 'm almost frightened to put a crescendo in because it was n't the , a big one . |
| 9 | You 're going to give them more of a ri , a more of a resource bank , if you like , right to pu pluck these , er these comments from |
| 10 | So it seems to me that you can not do analysis in a group because by definition the ego of a person in a group is , is detracted from , whereas in individual psychoanalysis and ideally the ego of the person is added to and enlarged to give them more competence by being made to face up to its repressions . |
| 11 | of getting i the some sort of a working a relationship a at a more detailed where in between , we 're between the staff the teaching staff and the tutor , the form tutors help the teaching staff , especially and say in your department where you you 're gon na have to give them more homework . |
| 12 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 13 | You need a new routine to give you more time . |
| 14 | Make , do some more er extend the er er er er parquet flooring area to give you more dance room . |
| 15 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 16 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 17 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 18 | ‘ And when you need to give her more chloroform , ’ he said , ‘ hand the leg you are holding to Rose — you may take them both on your shoulders if you will , Rose ; it 's important that she does n't regain consciousness during the actual birth . ’ |
| 19 | The Minister asked my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) to give her more evidence of evictions . |
| 20 | They started to give him more advice . |
| 21 | With the beginning of the 1947–8 season , John was transferred to the Sadler 's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden to give him more chances to work as a dancer with experienced choreographers . |
| 22 | The route of divorce may ultimately be open to him , but to give him more may , in the context of this argument , be unfair . |
| 23 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 24 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 25 | All it 's done is to give him more money to gamble away up in London . |
| 26 | Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects . |
| 27 | That 's to give it more sales value I suppose . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
| 29 | Diadem deserve thanks for publishing this translation and bringing Sauvy 's excellent work to a wider audience ; we can only hope the decide to give us more . |
| 30 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |