Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 2 | Even where you have more flexibility , such as constituency campaigning by local candidates , you may still need to choose your audiences and visitors carefully . |
| 3 | Where you have more people that what you have improvement work for them to do . |
| 4 | You might begin by writing notes and questions to yourself — to check what you already know and where you need more information . |
| 5 | If however , you 're confused about anything this afternoon , or you want more information about , you know , managing time and so on , give me a call please , er , my number is and er , I may not be there , but I do have an answerphone , and I will get back to you as soon as I can . |
| 6 | ‘ Or you risk more than a mere snub . ’ |
| 7 | The second ballot is final , and the candidate with the most votes is elected , whether he or she wins more than half the votes or not . |
| 8 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 9 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A day of rest for most people , although I do more real work today than in the rest of the week put together . ’ |
| 11 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 12 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
| 13 | His opening compliment to the girl may backfire : ( " In all this land I [ know ] not one maiden that I love more than thee … " ) |
| 14 | ‘ There 's nothing on this earth that I want more than to make love to you , but , if I do , later you 'll regret it . ’ |
| 15 | There is surely something very odd about insisting that I need more than the fact that I love cats and hate dogs to decide which to have about the house . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a wise old friend in the College of Agriculture who said to me once , ‘ I never go out into the field without discovering that I have more to learn than to teach ’ . |
| 18 | It 's just that I have more and more good days . |
| 19 | At precisely midnight I lightly prick a lobworm onto the size 6 hook , making sure the hook is only an inch away from the tail-end of the lob , for I have found that I hook more carp when the lobs are impaled in this way . |
| 20 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 21 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 22 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Sadly , mine is a sort of hole in the wall — not possible to move — so I spend more time running back and forth to fetch tools than I do using them . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 26 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 27 | Not that she spent more than half an hour each night in her own dressing-room . |
| 28 | it is not proud that she has more Bible knowledge than he does . |
| 29 | This criterion does not apply to the pronouns he and she ( do n't be fooled by the fact that she has more letters ; it still has only two sounds ) . |
| 30 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |