Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] more [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Consequently she has had more than enough practice at fielding some of the more banal of my questions . |
| 3 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 4 | Central Government has taken more and more control of what local councils can do , and in particular has control of the amount of money that local councils can spend erm more and more over the years . |
| 5 | Price will depend on the quality and quantity of the harvest , but expect to pay more than last year 's £1,200 per kilogram . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to become more and more specialist . ’ |
| 7 | As compression techniques improve and storage becomes greater , we can expect to see more and more disc based products which combine , in consumer entertainment , education , training and even in business communications , digital sound , data , graphics and moving pictures to create genuinely multimedia information products . |
| 8 | The success of the concept of franchising is self-evident as it has grown to encompass more and more business sectors . |
| 9 | He 'd had more than enough practice to become an expert . |
| 10 | But she only seemed to uncover more and more misery and misfortune whichever way she turned . |
| 11 | In this period not only did the nature of the trade-offs change but at the same time the policy-makers came to attach more or less importance to particular objectives . |
| 12 | If suitable genes for gluten production could be added to British varieties , or if the genes in British wheat were made to produce more or better gluten , imports would be saved and farmers would get a higher price for a better quality wheat . |
| 13 | She found that she was having to wear more and more make-up to cover — these blemishes . |
| 14 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 15 | The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule . |
| 16 | Well now would them girl would them girls say , she must have said more than that mother . |
| 17 | For example , in paragraph 2.19 it states ’ HMI was concerned to hear , repeatedly , from police officers that they were having to concede more and more ground to the hooligans in the street , as no police back-up could be expected when scanty resources were deployed to incidents . ’ |
| 18 | You 'll have to take more and more film of him , then it 's lovely when you look back on it |
| 19 | Perhaps it was the nagging awareness that he too had hoped to gain more than mere gratification from their acquaintance . |
| 20 | But I suspect that the unhappiness at home threw me even deeper into my ornithology , and made me want to spend more and more time with birds . |
| 21 | Well I do n't think we owe it to them we just delivered them a nice big salary and they 've got more than enough work to do . |
| 22 | Do you feel that you 've got more or less job security now than in the past ? |
| 23 | Valerie Jones made her excuses and left — she had had more than enough coffee . |
| 24 | You 've had more than enough time to tell me , and by keeping quiet since we met again you 've been effectively lying . ’ |
| 25 | A man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money , but simply to live as he is accustomed to live and to earn as much as is necessary for that purpose . |