Example sentences of "[pers pn] had more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 2 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 3 | I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out . |
| 4 | I wrote a few postcards — I had more faith in Bolivia 's postal service than Peru 's — and wondered what I was doing here . |
| 5 | A lot of my clothes are holey , and if I had more money I definitely would dress quite differently . |
| 6 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 7 | I had more guilt feelings than anything else . |
| 8 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
| 9 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 10 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 11 | I asked , rather wishing I had more clothes on . |
| 12 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 13 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 14 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
| 15 | The Tauregs know every nook and cranny in the Hoggars , and proved excellent guides , but every ride was a bumpy one , and by the end of the day I had more need of the masseurs than the runners did ! ’ |
| 16 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’ |
| 18 | In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands . |
| 19 | They would wait until I had more time . |
| 20 | I wish I had more time for reading ; it means a lot to me . ’ |
| 21 | At some point I did wonder whether I had more humiliation and torture to look forward to . |
| 22 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
| 23 | Surely she had more pride than that ? |
| 24 | ‘ Is that the soup for — ’ she had more difficulty than she 'd expected in saying the name — ‘ for Marion Maclean ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 29 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 30 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |