Example sentences of "[vb past] have more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you erm look back on it now , do you wish you 'd had more education at all when you were younger ? |
| 2 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 3 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 4 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 5 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 6 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 7 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 8 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 9 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 10 | ‘ He seemed to have more chances in our draw with Spurs than the rest of the season put together , ’ said Big Ron . |
| 11 | They all seemed to have more luggage than when they had started . |
| 12 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |
| 13 | The normal childhood that other people wished on him struck him as mostly plaguing and tawdry ; his own lost norm , a life spent in the company of ribald sopranos and tap-dancers and hard-pressed comedians in fear of the sack , seemed to have more decency and purpose . |
| 14 | It seemed to have more life than the photograph . ’ |
| 15 | And the funny thing was , instead of being resentful of the changes , everybody seemed happier , seemed to have more sense of purpose , more enthusiasm for giving the guests a good time , instead of having one themselves . |
| 16 | Workers had rallied enthusiastically to the Soviet , and soldiers in the capital also seemed to have more faith in it than in the Duma leaders . |
| 17 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 18 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 19 | They seemed to have more money . |
| 20 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 21 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 22 | She seemed to have more energy as a result , but she developed nettle-rash and a vaginal discharge , which turned out to-be due to thrush ( Candida infection ) . |
| 23 | It was a big machine which I think had not been set up right — it seemed to have more blades than necessary . |
| 24 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 25 | As he grew older his own life began to have more centre to it and he gave up yearning so hungrily after his mother 's attention . |
| 26 | And once homeothermy had been accepted as a good working hypothesis , then other arguments relating to non-metabolic methods of heat control began to have more relevance . |
| 27 | In the 1940s and 1950s working-class women expected to have more babies than middle-class women . |
| 28 | Women did not eat as many sausages , pies , or fish and chips than men , yet did have more fruit and recommended reduced fat milk . |
| 29 | She had had more responsibility that she 'd expected , but she had enjoyed it and welcomed the stability it had brought to her erratic life . |
| 30 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |