Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK proposed to argue for more ‘ discretion ’ for individual governments , for example ‘ aiming ’ to reduce nitrate levels while being allowed to set its own rates of application of manure . |
| 2 | Doctors at a Bristol hospital said today , they 'd called for more research following two cases there in which mothers had used water baths in the early stages of labour . |
| 3 | They 'd asked for more space , as part of the head office refurbishment , but this was ridiculous ! |
| 4 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 5 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 6 | Court cases and the resulting media responses given to these new ‘ drug fiends ’ ( to use the phrase coined by Stanley Cohen ( 1973 ) ) verged almost on the hysterical ( see Young 1977 ) , and moral entrepreneurs began to press for more controls and increased action . |
| 7 | When they discovered a pair of woman 's shoes they decided to hunt for more clues , even joking that ‘ we might find a body . ’ |
| 8 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 9 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 10 | When Kylie went shopping for more additions to her by now Imelda Marcos scale wardrobe in one of London 's stores , the result was inevitable . |
| 11 | But he had wished for more than that . |
| 12 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 13 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 14 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 15 | Patients with adenocarcinoma had smoked for more years in total ( median 38.5 , range 4–54 years ) than patients with CLO ( median 29.5 , range 6–55 years ) ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 16 | Patients with adenocarcinoma had smoked for more years in total ( median 38.5 , range 4–54 years ) than CLO patients ( median 29.5 , range 6–55 years ) ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 17 | Round the corner to our right was what we journalists liked to refer to as ‘ No-Man's-Land ’ , into which no man had ventured for more than a year . |
| 18 | A week after the had asking for more , Oliver remained greater prisoner in the darken solitary room which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board , but it appears that at first sight not unreasonable disclose that for a particular gentleman of white waistcoat . |
| 19 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 20 | Following your excellent exposé of our ambiguous one , and Danny Baker 's candid assessment of the Boy In The Bubble , I had hoped for more than the arselicking articles printed . |
| 21 | ‘ I had hoped for more , I must confess , Rain . |
| 22 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 23 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
| 24 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 25 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |
| 26 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |
| 27 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |