Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 2 | ‘ The terrible publicity of last year has made us more aware of our public image , ’ he said . |
| 3 | But it has made us more productive and more of a team — we all have to co-operate and pull together just to keep our heads above water . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ As time has gone on , the whole thing has got him more and more down , so this is a great relief and a huge weight off his shoulders . |
| 5 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It has hurt him more than anything else since his release . |
| 7 | But he says the case has cost him more than that . |
| 8 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 10 | See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well |
| 11 | Folasade felt she had changed in that having a baby had given her more confidence and put her on a more equal footing with her mother . |
| 12 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 13 | The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle . |
| 14 | ‘ I should have given you more time , ’ Mr O'Hara continued . |
| 15 | I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it . |
| 16 | Doyle , he suspected , would have respected him more if he had occasionally been less accommodating . |
| 17 | Next is Aled Williams of Bridgend , whose consistency in domestic matches , which might not be transferred to internationals , should have earned him more than a replacement honour ( out of position ) against Namibia in 1990 . |
| 18 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 19 | I told her of my mother Elethandian , your wife , and I would have told her more but she began to scream at me . |
| 20 | I suppose the divorce must have affected her more than anyone realised . ’ |
| 21 | While political consistency can be over-rated as a virtue — Ted Heath being an example of what happens to a politician whose mind remains fixed while the world moves by him — the rapidity with which Kinnock changed position may have damaged him more than his supporters thought it would . |
| 22 | Nothing he could have said could have terrified her more ; it meant he wanted to take her to bed as well as take her self-respect and her father 's company . |
| 23 | Ron Robinson took charge of this element and the gathering that was achieved might have caused him more than a few ulcers , but he had to admit was more than worth the effort ! |
| 24 | Seeing Rohan , even fleetingly in a crowd , would simply have caused her more pain , especially at a wedding with all its attendant might-have-beens , she told herself forcefully . |
| 25 | A more generous format would have allowed her more scope . |
| 26 | Would he have loved her more if she had been a son ? , |
| 27 | It seems to have hit us more than anyone else for some reason . |
| 28 | Jessop had considerable scruples about taking the ‘ engagement ’ , or loyalty oath to the republic ; the abolition of the House of Lords seems to have upset him more than the 1649 regicide and abolition of the monarchy . |
| 29 | Because y you , obviously you 've presented different information in your talk this afternoon , you 've given us more information that was in your abstract , so the figures are different , where you , in your abstract you just talked about differences between G three , T three tumours . |
| 30 | Lead technician said the training trip had given her more confidence about how to handle the machines . |