Example sentences of "[vb infin] i more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 2 | After what that evil bastard did to me , you could n't possibly tell me anything about him that would make me more frightened of him than I already am . ’ |
| 3 | Hey , darlin' , do n't you fancy me more than that nigger ? |
| 4 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you consider me more dangerous than whoever sent that letter ? ’ |
| 6 | BELVILLE : [ coldly ] I desire you 'll not oppress me more with your follies and your violence . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you sure you ca n't do me more than eight brace ? ’ |
| 8 | You 'll do me more good nor a bucket o' medicine . |
| 9 | Why wo n't he give me more support ? |
| 10 | They know there 's no way I can play as I did when I was No 1 in the world but hopefully with more matches which will give me more confidence , they will see me play good tennis ’ . |
| 11 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 12 | Are the 4 cylinder engine mounts suitable to take a Perkins engine without chassis welding and will this engine give me more torque for towing than the present engine . |
| 13 | The bigger crust , once soaked , will give me more weight , as will the swan-shot , and the crust is big enough to support the weight of the shot . |
| 14 | Can you give me more details … ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You must give me more information . ’ |
| 16 | Insp Best said : ‘ I have come here with a very open mind but what I want to do is to develop the skills I have already and I am hoping it will give me more confidence . |
| 17 | It will give me more chance to find things out . |
| 18 | When a weak-form word is given stress for the purpose of emphasis , e.g. : ‘ You must give me more money ’ |
| 19 | And I Queensbank and he would n't even give me more than a fiver ! |
| 20 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Would you like me more if I had some schooling , Seb ? |
| 22 | They did n't say much and , to be fair , they did n't even touch me more than was necessary . |
| 23 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 24 | If this was satisfactory , he might ‘ exploit me more extensively ’ in the new year . |
| 25 | No one can hate me more than I hate myself . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 27 | Use questions such as ‘ what else ? , what more ? , can you tell me more about that ? ’ in order to extract more information . |
| 28 | I have a Perruno called Frank — can you tell me more about him ? |
| 29 | ‘ Say , ’ he said , ‘ you 'd better tell me more precisely about what I am to wear to this ball . |
| 30 | Requests : ‘ Can you tell me more about that ? ’ or ‘ Yes , go on ’ will encourage further expansion . |