Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] more [noun pl] " 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 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 4 | Somehow or other , working on hands and knees , I drew more branches before my little retreat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I swotted more bluebottles than anyone else ! ’ |
| 7 | I signed more pieces of paper and went downstairs to join the queue outside the clothing store . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Next door , in a small art gallery and museum , I saw more drawings by Jack Yeats , all excellent . |
| 11 | Before long , I saw more signs of agriculture , on a pathetically primitive level . |
| 12 | I Dreamed more bullets into the gun , and shot him full of more lead . |
| 13 | I thought more students would have spoken with them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 16 | I asked , rather wishing I had more clothes on . |
| 17 | I wanted more goals . |
| 18 | Hens got extra feed and you got more eggs . |
| 19 | Number five became so terrified she made more mistakes and prayed to God that the dance would never finish . |
| 20 | She only normally , she said all I ever get normally is Elizabeth on a pass and she got more passes than anything . |
| 21 | She asked more questions than I did . ’ |
| 22 | She found more deaths among sexually mature females than among males , which gave a skew in the latter 's favour . |
| 23 | She saw more cows at a glance than she had ever seen before . |
| 24 | In 1991 , she won more matches on clay than any other player , ( 24 ) , and she had the fourth best win/loss record of all players on that surface , ( 24/3 ) , with a percentage success rate of .904 , although it should be noted that , in 7 attempts to date , she has been unable to overcome the dominant hitting of Seles . |
| 25 | When she found her mother was no longer giving her the attention she craved she worked harder to obtain it so she strewed more objects on the floor . |
| 26 | She lit more candles without a word , and shut the tinderbox with a snap . |
| 27 | She smoked more cigarettes than anybody I was ever to meet , and she cemented my loyalty to her with frequent presents of Airfix model aeroplanes . |
| 28 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
| 29 | But for Miss Mates the ‘ really truly ’ was the icing on the cake , even if she had more doubts about Sally-Anne 's stamina than her missing references . |
| 30 | She said more parents were rumoured to be planning to transfer their children . |