Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , as our talk wound down to a close , Koons begged for more . |
| 2 | On internal British politics , Ken speaks for more than the Labour leadership might imagine , but when he leaves England for abroad he starts to get very muddled-up . |
| 3 | United stuck on three … but Bury went for more … and got them … numbers four and five could be classed as freaks or flukes Daws and Rigby were given the the goals … but forget football this was more like pinball … |
| 4 | Boosted by that success , Scotland looked for more , and they duly obliged three minutes into the second half when Paul Telfer 's flag-kick was met by Duncan Ferguson 's deadly forehead , the ball speeding past a bemused Tony Mallia . |
| 5 | Russia asks for more time to phase out ozone depleters |
| 6 | ND argued for more free-market economic policies and deep cuts in government spending , while Pasok and Synaspismos called for the preservation of welfare provisions and for a higher productivity in the public sector . |
| 7 | UN calls for more aid for Third World space satellites |
| 8 | Rose Jennings calls for more passion and less vague sentiment in anti-war art |
| 9 | I have already written to BBC to plead for more time for Eldorado . |
| 10 | This together with his DC–3 rating ( back to the August issue for more on that ) gained in the States , spells new adventure . |
| 11 | In the EC Health and Safety Directorate 's publication , Janus , Simonsen called for more research into such chemicals , arguing that clear international criteria and screening tests for neurotoxicity are needed . |
| 12 | Then , once a week , Rivera asks for more information on your behalf . |
| 13 | In each of these products , Europe accounted for more than half of the world 's output ; most of the rest came from the United States . |
| 14 | Benjamin asked for more torches and we went round the walls studying the floor . |
| 15 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 16 | Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham County Council group traffic manager for road safety , said incidents in Darlington accounted for more than half the total cycling accidents in County Durham last year . |
| 17 | Two groups of council officials have been in London pleading for more money from the government . |
| 18 | Coun. Bill Stenson called for more schools to get involved in cycling proficiency and road safety schemes , and Mr Hillcoat said that road safety officers from the county were involved in helping teachers run the schemes . |
| 19 | Coun Bill Stenson called for more schools to take on cycling proficiency and road safety courses for children . |
| 20 | About fish , a matter of great symbolic and economic importance in Norway , the government bluntly says that if the EC asks for more fishing rights in Norwegian waters there will be no question of Norway joining . |
| 21 | It would be necessary only to produce evidence of the drawing of straws and some sort of conspiracy to send Oliver Twist to ask for more . |
| 22 | Sherwood looks for more such business on the back of BS5750 approval , fast becoming an essential requirement for government tenders . |
| 23 | One month later Allison wrote to Clark asking for more details about Clark 's work — this time on t-butyl hydroperoxide , another chemical known to produce free oxygen radicals . |
| 24 | The AA asks for more of the money taken in taxation from drivers to be put to work , and for road pricing proposals to be acknowledged as unnecessary , inflationary and , ultimately , inequitable . |