Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] more [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ulph ( 1987 ) points out that those who earn close to the tax threshold will enjoy little or no income effect from the tax cut so that the substitution effect should dominate , causing them to work more hours . |
| 2 | You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel . |
| 3 | He did his usual practice stint , during which I endured more jokes from the other caddies and from some of the players about my sudden fame . |
| 4 | Later on in my schooling life I made more friends but there has been a lot of falling outs , but we always make up again . |
| 5 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 6 | ‘ I want more waterfalls and perhaps a bridge . ’ |
| 7 | Somehow or other , working on hands and knees , I drew more branches before my little retreat . |
| 8 | Yeah they go to mush and then I put more taters into it later on , about twenty minutes before I need it , but it thickens it so they 'll eat it . |
| 9 | I put more bums in beds for them than any other general manager they 've had . ’ |
| 10 | GUIL : Good God , I hope more tears are shed for us ! … |
| 11 | ‘ Ten years , ’ he said , ‘ ten years I 've had on this milk run , see , and I seen more accidents than I 've had Sunday dinners . |
| 12 | I receive more complaints from retired people about standing charges than anything else . |
| 13 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 14 | Got I to grow more carrots . |
| 15 | There does not seem to be this intense aggression in my aquarium , obviously the size of the tank does give quite a lot of room for manoeuvre , but as I said earlier , as I add more Emperors , a close watch will have to be kept on them . |
| 16 | I pass more schoolchildren . |
| 17 | I know more songs than you . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's much less musical influences with me , ’ explains singer/guitarist Jock , ‘ I get more images from films and books . |
| 19 | I swotted more bluebottles than anyone else ! ’ |
| 20 | I signed more pieces of paper and went downstairs to join the queue outside the clothing store . |
| 21 | As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec . |
| 22 | I dampen more towels and scrub the whole of my legs and feet , though I can not remove it all , and much of it smears into my skin , giving it a pinkish tint . |
| 23 | This proposal concerned the use of an AI Planning Aid to assist the major servicing of the aircraft and I believe more details of this will be given by Steve Docker in his talk this afternoon . |
| 24 | But otherwise I find more cons than pros . |
| 25 | The best I have ever managed is to replace the stitches one by one on to the needle hooks with a transfer tool and even then I lost more stitches ( and had to ‘ save ’ them ) than I transferred successfully . |
| 26 | Next door , in a small art gallery and museum , I saw more drawings by Jack Yeats , all excellent . |
| 27 | Before long , I saw more signs of agriculture , on a pathetically primitive level . |
| 28 | I Dreamed more bullets into the gun , and shot him full of more lead . |
| 29 | I thought more students would have spoken with them . |
| 30 | By mid — 1943 it was made very clear to the Main Force Groups that their " selection " was unacceptable as I sent more crews back than we kept . |