Example sentences of "[to-vb] for more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 2 | Send to SCIAF for more information . |
| 3 | If all this leads the controlling group to scream for more money from the Government , and it will inevitably , I suggest they start using the money they have more sensibly and not waste it on their more extravagant schemes . |
| 4 | Correspondence had been received from the green machine and the secretary was asked to write for more information because we were n't convinced with exactly what they were doing . |
| 5 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 6 | The speaker is less likely to gulp for more air in mid-sentence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes there is not opportunity to do that work immediately , even though one knows where to look for more information . |
| 9 | The nuzzling continued as his lips found her own , teasing and provoking her to yearn for more depth in the caress , until suddenly he took possession of her mouth in a forceful kiss that went on and on as though it would last for ever . |
| 10 | The left-wing response is to press for more money to improve these services , make them more relevant to public needs ; the right-wing response is to privatize further — and if the latter is the response you favour , then you have a wonderful excuse for withholding taxes : ’ Why should I pay for services I do n't use ? ’ |
| 11 | Some will wish to press for more neighbourhood educational provision for visually handicapped pupils and will hope that their child can go to school on a daily basis from home like his fully sighted peers . |
| 12 | Second , the electorate will have every incentive to vote for more government services because they do not pay for them directly and individual tax payments may bear little ( if any ) relationship to the benefits which they may derive from such services . |
| 13 | THE WHITE House 's long-awaited national energy strategy spurns energy conservation and instead urges the country to drill for more oil . |
| 14 | Brenda , from Bridlington , says the £800 compensation offered is ‘ derisory ’ and is to fight for more money . |
| 15 | I have already written to BBC to plead for more time for Eldorado . |
| 16 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 17 | His foreign minister , Edouard Shevardnadze , by coincidence chose the day Mrs Thatcher 's greening was declared in a speech to the Royal Society ( 27 September 1988 ) to call for more co-operation in ‘ ecological security ’ . |
| 18 | But were the Liberal Democrats not in favour of higher taxation — with their famous penny on basic rate income tax to pay for more education spending , and a new top rate of tax set at 50 per cent ? |
| 19 | Is it expected that that will be the embryo for a carbon tax to pay for more investment in renewable energies ? |
| 20 | In department X the company would not have to pay for more labour hours but more will be worked ( instead of being idle ) . |
| 21 | To be envious , in Axelrod 's terminology , means to strive for more money than the other player , rather than for an absolutely large quantity of the banker 's money . |
| 22 | But he was ordered to return for more question-ing in November as a ‘ lengthy investigation ’ was launched . |
| 23 | The decision whether to ask for more money from the Home Office will be made by a special panel who meet on June 25 to discuss the issue , as well as deciding how to fund new security cameras for Warrington and police pay rises . |
| 24 | But his department has been slow to ask for more cash for environmental aid to the Third World . |
| 25 | A man who represented the regional office of the Prince 's Trust in Truro was ringing to ask for more information about my work . |
| 26 | Yet the government intends to ask for more food relief this year . |