Example sentences of "[pron] make more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You make more money than most people in this town , ’ Bernard snapped . |
| 2 | ‘ If anything , you make more fuss than I do . ’ |
| 3 | ( Try thinking about your finger movements when you play a well-known tune on a keyboard — you make more mistakes than if you let your fingers do the thinking . ) |
| 4 | We make more programmes — 110 hours of radio and television journalism each week . |
| 5 | You see I 've got the prob I mean my initial reaction is I mean I I 've got no strong feeling to say we 've got to supply product the stuff it 's cheaper , we make more money , sod it . |
| 6 | It 's a steady pressure trying to push that through , and we increase the resistance , we make more resistance |
| 7 | We make more fuss of ballads than of blueprints — |
| 8 | ‘ If they make more money in Germany , say , than they do at home , they will need to reinvest more there , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Some people like prison because they make more friends in there . |
| 10 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 11 | They make more business trips . |
| 12 | One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well-trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " . |
| 13 | These blooming ears they make more trouble than they 're wor , erm , than they 're worth ! |