Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] more to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the table I was in crepuscular mood for a few minutes , then bent once more to the task of diverting the wedding guests . |
| 2 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 3 | But once she had tried it on , her spirits sank once more to unprecedented depths . |
| 4 | She slept a little — perhaps he did too — then woke once more to the warm arousal of his kiss , the murmur of his voice against her ear , summoning her to another feast of delight . |
| 5 | He paraded with Generals Howard and Miles in New York during the dedication of Grant 's Tomb , and appealed once more to be returned to his Wallowa home . |
| 6 | Her eyes dropped once more to the boxer shorts as embarrassed colour rose to her cheeks . |
| 7 | The answer to problem one was a makeshift modification which ultimately added even more to the Dalek 's appeal . |
| 8 | With nowhere but the limited Drigg dump near Sellafield for low-level waste , and nowhere at all for intermediate-level , the authorities turned once more to mainland Britain to find an acceptable ‘ long term ’ solution . |
| 9 | Although Frank obtained a first-class diploma from the College , he did not find an opening in farming and his thoughts turned once more to medicine for which his experiences at College led him to think he had an aptitude . |
| 10 | It had occurred to her that by devoting her life to her work she would never have the chance to look after her own babies , and her thoughts turned once more to the young man with the dark wavy hair and the expressive blue eyes . |
| 11 | Ian frowned and turned once more to the window . |
| 12 | Then , in 1210 , after Otto had revived the old imperial policies in Italy and had begun to oppress the Church , Innocent turned once more to Philip Augustus . |
| 13 | As the blood began once more to course through George 's legs , his muscles went into spasms of cramp , so that they needed to pause every few yards . |
| 14 | He retired from the Army in 1948 and returned once more to his estate at Bishopton , where he devoted himself to farm improvements . |
| 15 | After a period under the Domenicans , the Poor Clares returned once more to their convent but the buildings then suffered from the fire in the Old Town in 1689 . |
| 16 | I returned once more to my geometry books . |
| 17 | At the outset it should be stressed that Mosley 's mode of reasoning owed far more to continental than to British tradition , to a synthesis of ideas rather than empiricism . |
| 18 | Dostoevsky owed even more to Cervantes than to Molière , and here again , as in his relations with Shakespeare and Pushkin , it 's a visitation with no very palpable memorial . |
| 19 | If it depended for government on the whims of its grandees , Georgian Sussex owed even more to their changing habits as members of leisured society , the relatively small but wealthy group whose fashions determined large areas of the economy in pre-industrial England . |
| 20 | She settled once more to enjoying the atmosphere , feeling rather hyped up . |
| 21 | He had been urged by his doctor to escape the English winter and at the end of the year he went once more to South Africa for a ten-week holiday , sailing to Durban and then proceeding in a leisurely fashion to Cape Town . |
| 22 | That meant far more to me than being a bishop . |
| 23 | Eton , however , meant far more to me than my relationships with others , or the learning I acquired or the games I played . |
| 24 | This is not surprising — Labour offered far more to those in the cities than did the Conservatives . |
| 25 | We applied twice more to the DTI for release . |
| 26 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |