Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 2 | In my own relatively trivial example what struck me forcefully was the assumption that being born in Canada seemed to make me more ‘ one of us ’ in the Immigration Officer 's eyes than ‘ one of them ’ , despite the fact that , within terms of the European Community , being Irish should make me far more of an insider . |
| 3 | This made me even more of a social outcast since most of the other girls already regarded my disability , my lack of money , my accent and the council estate on which I lived as reasons to ignore me . |
| 4 | Even so , it cost me rather more of my American dollars than I expected . |
| 5 | That belittling word Du , after you have addressed me as Sie so respectfully , showed me what you think of me , and affected me even more than contemptible . |
| 6 | If having Brian on your books is a problem , then give me plenty more of the same . ’ |
| 7 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 8 | She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money . |
| 9 | It gave me even more of a feeling of why pick now to put me through this . |
| 10 | well er , I 'm sorry to interrupt you , I 'm sorry I do apologise , perhaps it 's my tooth , it 's making me even more testier than usual , erm , I , I thought your case was that these agreements were void |
| 11 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |