Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 2 | It was only family loyalty that prevented Lucy from admitting that her aunt 's references to her dear Tom had never sounded convincing , and , giving a small sigh , she said , ‘ Perhaps I understand more than you realise . ’ |
| 3 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 4 | ‘ But inside I feel more compassion , really quite deeply — it 's just hard to let it show . ’ |
| 5 | Or ( for a woman ) is your period due and that is causing you to weigh more than usual ? perhaps you ate more than you realized the previous week ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So you get more money then . |
| 8 | So you grow more resources . |
| 9 | So you need more than ‘ just enough ’ space — in corridors , past exhibition stands , into and out of the main forum , to the toilets and refreshment facilities ; more than theory or the fire inspector demands . |
| 10 | So you have more room for your |
| 11 | Furthermore we know more or less what to do to increase its strength . |
| 12 | I mean what about apparently we eat more chocolate than any other country . |
| 13 | So that 's what flat machines do , they knit , these particular Jacquard and , and that 's what the continentals were good at , it , cos they look , I mean they were far more , we 're so conservative in this country , little better now obviously we do more nowad you know we 're talking about just after the war the Italians and the French were into colour , not garish colour , subtle lovely colours . |
| 14 | so we know more than the characters do |
| 15 | So we get more raffle tickets this week . |
| 16 | So we got more money and then mum and dad were and me and my brother are supposed to have . |
| 17 | So we supply more people overseas that we are in the U K. |
| 18 | Perhaps it 's perhaps they hold more than you think they do . |
| 19 | Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion . |
| 20 | She left when she got adopted as Conservative candidate for Newbury , so he is not without erm competent female advice , and some would say perhaps they have more power than the having a woman colleague in the cabinet . |
| 21 | So they sell more papers on Saturday . |
| 22 | be because leaders want power and they get power and so they want more power . |
| 23 | John quickly became intimate friends with Mr Huddlestone , the general manager of the Winter Gardens complex , and together they produced more scenes and numbers during the summer season and well into the autumn . |
| 24 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 25 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 26 | Perhaps it has more force against emotivism than against the attitudinism I have described . |
| 27 | But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it . |
| 28 | " His hair has been better since he 's been with Sarah Brightman , " confides one long-term associate , " and perhaps he developed more ofa sense of humour . |
| 29 | Perhaps he spends more time with his wife when he 's ashore these days . ’ |
| 30 | Like the cold war , it is , as Mary Kaldor has defined it , an imaginary war , only it has more substance . |