Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb base] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ferdinando left the Brownings service and came in with her , adopting his rightful position , then she could manage even better and take more boarders and they would be self-supporting besides living together always . |
| 2 | Cross-references direct students to compound nouns , opposites , confusables , and related words so that they understand words better and learn more vocabulary |
| 3 | Put one piece of salmon skinside down and spread more of the mixture over the cut side . |
| 4 | That 's what he wanted to do to from the start , cut the wages down and make more slate , that 's what he had in mind . |
| 5 | Contractors must get their act together and take more responsibility . |
| 6 | The subordinate females do have one or two ways of retaliating — they tend to go on laying longer and produce more eggs than the dominant female , and they also produce the occasional late egg some time after they have laid the rest of their clutch . |
| 7 | A simple propagator will help you raise seedlings more easily and achieve more success with cuttings . |
| 8 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 9 | You have to write and and write more details or put more pressure on and have more people write . |
| 10 | We have pointed out that her ambitions are relatively lowly and that she could earn far more and do more interesting work as a doctor than as a nurse , but her attitudes seem thoroughly entrenched . |
| 11 | ‘ Go home and have more babies . ’ |
| 12 | One of the men was passing round a big china bowl into which money was being thrown , and as Sabine watched Marie-Christine began , with raucous and vociferous encouragement from the men , to lift her skirt demurely and reveal more and more of one shapely leg . |
| 13 | And because dense bones tend to sink , black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat . |
| 14 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 15 | Every so often they 'd come down and they 'd take the bung out and put more water in . |
| 16 | As our second day dawned with a cloudless sky I could n't wait to get back out and explore more of the Dorset countryside — this time with a horse to take the strain . |
| 17 | People come out and commit more crimes . |
| 18 | Older people need to be in hospital longer , to consult general practitioners more often and take more drugs , and to have more home-based chiropody and nursing services and more personal social services than younger people ( Social Trends 1987 ) . |
| 19 | I.e. we want to create the impression that we are good people to do business with , so our customers come back and buy more of our books , so that makes more money for the company , which means they can pay us more money . |
| 20 | definitely trying to avoid my eyes now there 's a few eyes round here that look more like route maps of the M twenty five ! |
| 21 | Well if do more and you do n't like it |
| 22 | Cut out some administration today and put more time into leading your people to an even more profitable contribution . |
| 23 | By arranging to protect and feed the young of shellfish , for example , the commercial breeder can cut the normally high mortality rate quite dramatically and raise more juveniles to become adults than could ever occur in nature . |
| 24 | The only problem is that I 'm tired sometimes and write more or less whatever comes into my head . |
| 25 | And if that gentleman wants to go off and have and and marry again and raise more children he should still not leave his |
| 26 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 27 | This is the real time to take up those abandoned New Year resolutions — eat less , eat more healthily and take more exercise ! |
| 28 | This is largely because farmers on better land can stock it more heavily and attract more HLCAs , generating more capital to finance grant-aided agricultural improvements . |
| 29 | But El-ahrairah would not listen and he said to Frith , " My people are the strongest in the world , for they breed faster and eat more than any of the other people . |
| 30 | Premenstrually , metabolic rates go up , with the result that our bodies are burning calories faster and want more fuel . |