Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] me more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must give me more information . ’ |
| 2 | When a weak-form word is given stress for the purpose of emphasis , e.g. : ‘ You must give me more money ’ |
| 3 | However , I 'm leaving work soon to take up fostering teenagers , so this should leave me more time to devote to campaigning . |
| 4 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 5 | You 'll do me more good nor a bucket o' medicine . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought to help me more , ’ he once complained pathetically . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I 'm officially off the case , I wish you 'd tell me more about this mysterious Zbigniew Nowak . ’ |
| 8 | I am about to set up a mixed fish/invertebrate tank , and I would be very grateful if you could tell me more about Kalkwasser , which fishkeepers in the USA are using to dose their marine systems . |
| 9 | But the old woman fell back and died before she could tell me more . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You could help me more , ’ she suggested . |
| 11 | It 'd help me more if you keep Anna cool . |
| 12 | After what that evil bastard did to me , you could n't possibly tell me anything about him that would make me more frightened of him than I already am . ’ |
| 13 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 14 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 15 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 16 | Only Ards winning it would please me more — but we 're not the finished article yet . ’ |
| 17 | They know there 's no way I can play as I did when I was No 1 in the world but hopefully with more matches which will give me more confidence , they will see me play good tennis ’ . |
| 18 | The bigger crust , once soaked , will give me more weight , as will the swan-shot , and the crust is big enough to support the weight of the shot . |
| 19 | Insp Best said : ‘ I have come here with a very open mind but what I want to do is to develop the skills I have already and I am hoping it will give me more confidence . |
| 20 | It will give me more chance to find things out . |
| 21 | Dad says he will get me more Meccano at Christmas , but I want to buy a pulley and those thick flange-plates in Wylie Hills on Saturday when I get my pocket money . ’ |
| 22 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
| 23 | No one can hate me more than I hate myself . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |