Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate cooking more than housework . |
| 2 | And and I 'm all in favour as I say getting more through the letter box , it 's easier for us and it But I I think I mean I 'm quite happy to leave this now and just carry on with the bridal But we have to make this pay itself |
| 3 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 6 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 7 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 8 | then I started working more and more and more |
| 9 | I kept putting more water in and it got so full . |
| 10 | The crews are mostly ‘ medical assistants , ’ which means possessing more than just a knowledge of first aid . |
| 11 | You say that you value receiving more information and having closer links with your university , and encouraged by that we shall carry on working hard to make that contact easy and pleasurable . |
| 12 | Even the running slow can be a serious problem because instead of waiting for it to finish a task you start pressing more keys — which gives it even more to do ! |
| 13 | If , however , you ca n't get it out immediately , do n't poke and do n't stick your finger blindly down her throat or you risk doing more damage . |
| 14 | It is n't wrong to feel angry , but if you let it out in ways like this , the distress will increase for both of you , and you risk losing more than the chance to be a mother . |
| 15 | Can you imagine having more Sheff Utd players on duty than Leeds ? |
| 16 | The second tactic is to ensure that we stop adding more people to the numbers of tragic people on our streets as a result of years of social and self-neglect . |
| 17 | We were n't knuckling down but we started working more because we were n't fucking bossed about . |
| 18 | The Orcs ’ single-mindedness is one of their greatest strengths , especially as they enjoy fighting more than anything else . |
| 19 | They kept ordering more brandy and all seemed genuinely upset . |
| 20 | Cos you 've probably found that already with maths have n't you that once there 's a little bit you do n't understand they start putting more and more on that you need to know that little bit for and you you do n't know it and you 're getting more and more lost and then it gets a bit late then . |
| 21 | Ms Morrell attempts damage limitation by telling her boss to keep his mouth shut and not rock the boat , but on he goes collecting more enemies and being let down by erstwhile friends . |
| 22 | He went into the shed where he kept the tractor and came back with his crowbar , with which he began levering more logs from the trailer to the ground . |
| 23 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |