Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the nation mourns ( not ) over the sudden cancellation of the SHAKESPEAR 'S SISTER mega-tour , it would seem that the reason behind the decision had little to do with SIOBHAN 's nervous exhaustion and more to do with the fact that hubbie DAVE STEWART wants to spend more time with his wife and less time on his Jack Jones , staring at his fibre-optic carpet . |
| 2 | This is not a new disclosure , but Summers has uncovered more evidence that has previously be revealed for Hoover 's long relationship with his sidekick Clyde Tolson , and has also unearthed stories of orgies and transvestism . |
| 3 | Dennis has got more in his little finger than George |
| 4 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 5 | The United States began to buy more consumer goods from abroad than it exported in 1959 ; by 1969 the deficit was $4 billion ; in 1968 the balance on cars became negative . |
| 6 | Stalin 's KGB managed to process more people through his concentration camps than the Inquisition managed through their courts . |
| 7 | Venetian Romanesque architecture was dominated by the city 's eastern contacts and Byzantium continued to have more influence than Lombardy or Pisa . |
| 8 | By the end of 1976 , Demis Roussos had sold more records in Britain than any other solo artist , including David Bowie and Elton John . |
| 9 | I think Jean 's got more about her than Bren |
| 10 | But Derek Jefferson wanted to know more and asked how Froggy was killed . |
| 11 | David 's got more sense than I ever had and Chris is a good girl . |
| 12 | Today , Rennie admitted making more threats to Mr Loren in a park in Cheltenham . |
| 13 | The North has had more than its fair share of the squalor of industrial inheritance . |
| 14 | American satellite pictures seem to support suspicions that North Korea has produced more plutonium than it owns up to . |
| 15 | Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong . |
| 16 | With every horror — the Poison Feast of 1907 being one of the most infamous — Castle Drachenfels seemed to draw more vileness unto itself . |
| 17 | However , Nigel enjoyed whingeing more than lying . |
| 18 | Although Wordsworth had produced more poems than Coleridge for their joint volume , Lyrical Ballads , honour was satisfied by giving the long Ancient Mariner — or Ancyent Marinere as it was originally spelt — pride of place . |
| 19 | I thought erm Mick had spoken more about it , doing all her kitchen and everything than ever he 'd |
| 20 | Undoubtedly British official statistics would have advanced more rapidly , particularly in the use of sampling techniques , if Bowley had had more to do with them . " |
| 21 | Eva wanted to do more of this ; she discussed furnishings and house decoration with the better-off ones — they were always buying new places in the country , these people , and she knew how to make herself useful . |
| 22 | Millwall have scored more goals at home than any other team in the first division but away their record is one of the worst … |
| 23 | They were also busy in following the national NHS plan to put more money into primary care services . |
| 24 | Soon Endill got to know more of the library . |
| 25 | Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week . |
| 26 | Mr has made more publicity on this issue than any other councillor . |
| 27 | Despite the expectation that electricity demand grows hardly at all , the CEGB expects to burn more oil in 2000 than it did in 1981 . |
| 28 | Mr Browne said recovering more oil from proven fields could be one of the most efficient ways of keeping the North Sea in business . |
| 29 | Dolly had to stifle more hysteria . |
| 30 | American history aside , Madame Chardin 's had more than adequately prepared her and Katherine set her sights on university , on Columbia , or Radcliffe or Sarah Laurence . |