Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] more [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I want more people — to carry on with your footballing metaphor — to join my team , to kick the ball for me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I feel more people could benefit from changes such as I was lucky enough to have in my life . |
| 6 | ‘ I think more people should wear hats ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If Mrs Thatcher had resigned out of the blue , then I think more people would be able to remember what they were doing , ’ says Dr Wright . |
| 8 | I think more people are getting the idea of this now . |
| 9 | I think more people see the back |
| 10 | And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that . |
| 11 | I think more people see the back coming up that way than they do the front window |
| 12 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 13 | I need more people like my detective sergeant who rolls his sleeves up and gets on with the job . ’ |
| 14 | But she reckons more people would watch the ailing show if organisers banned foreign singing . |
| 15 | ‘ You meet more people and teachers ’ . |
| 16 | Add to these lists each day as you get more data . |
| 17 | The use of zeolite to remove the ammonia might allow you to stock more fish — but it would also interrupt the ‘ flow ’ of nitrites to the bacteria and stop them multiplying . |
| 18 | Where you have more people that what you have improvement work for them to do . |
| 19 | ‘ You need more people to help . |
| 20 | Books were included in the W H Smith catalogue for the second consecutive year , which proved ‘ popular with our customers , and we reckon we got more sales out of it ’ . |
| 21 | So we supply more people overseas that we are in the U K. |
| 22 | Do we need more data or better theory ? |
| 23 | ‘ Trespassing is not a criminal offence and we want more people to understand that . |
| 24 | The Tories said : ‘ Unlike Labour , we want more people to have the security and satisfaction of owning property . ’ |
| 25 | We want more people to use them , from particular divisions , i.e. if you 've got common numbers , you ca n't really say numbers to the handset adequately , the system has been proved to be , so it 's a lot easier to have common numbers and publish them in the telephone directory , so look out for that when next the lists go round to update it , update the telephone directory . |
| 26 | ( Perhaps if we ate more fish the old brain cells might multiply a bit . ) |
| 27 | ‘ Thanks to Mrs Ashley we employed more people , the weavers were paid overtime and we enjoyed an Indian summer for a good few years . |
| 28 | For some reason my clients nearly always ask : ‘ Where can we put more people ? ’ |
| 29 | My own company operates in more than seventy countries , and we employ more people in other parts of the world than we do in our homeland , the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | ‘ We regretted having to do it , but we had more people attending the Christmas parties last year than we have employees at Wilton . ’ |