Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Roger ( 5.1 ) : I got more hair than you , Rodney . |
| 4 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 5 | I got more chance of catching a fish now cos we 're going Saturday and Sunday ! |
| 6 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 7 | You do not enter into any details respecting the Voyage , where you are resident etc. in fact I gleaned more information on these points from one of Gilbert 's Letters to a friend of his than from all 3 of yours — We are , however , delighted to find your expedition progressing so satisfactorily and anxiously hope it may continue to do so . ’ |
| 8 | Somehow or other , working on hands and knees , I drew more branches before my little retreat . |
| 9 | I affected more fear than I felt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I poured more brandy . |
| 12 | I swotted more bluebottles than anyone else ! ’ |
| 13 | I signed more pieces of paper and went downstairs to join the queue outside the clothing store . |
| 14 | It may have disappointed the fearless patriot , Mickey Spillane , who wrote these lines for his detective , Mike Hammer , in One Lonely Night ( 1951 — sales three million ) : ‘ I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands . |
| 15 | I ordered more stock . |
| 16 | I spent more money in Glasgow airport waiting for the plane … ’ |
| 17 | I heard more money being put in . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I heard more shootin' right after that , so I reckon it jes ' ain' bin their night . ’ |
| 20 | I sent mine back to John Le Masurier , a former National Coach and now in charge of the Team Secretariat , saying that I needed more competition . |
| 21 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Next door , in a small art gallery and museum , I saw more drawings by Jack Yeats , all excellent . |
| 24 | Before long , I saw more signs of agriculture , on a pathetically primitive level . |
| 25 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 26 | I Dreamed more bullets into the gun , and shot him full of more lead . |
| 27 | I thought more students would have spoken with them . |
| 28 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 29 | I took more time off than usual after the World Championships , feeling that I needed a break . |
| 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 . |