Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 2 | She had been a teacher , and made sure the girl went to a good school : ‘ my granny had more influence on me education-wise . |
| 3 | Child 1 ‘ My daddy handles more power than your daddy . |
| 4 | COULD N'T I LOSE WEIGHT BY MAKING MY BODY NEED MORE CALORIES ? |
| 5 | ‘ Would my husband like more wine ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm forever on at my father to get more phones put in , but he says we do n't get called often enough to warrant extensions . |
| 7 | My abaya had more gold then than now . ’ |
| 8 | My orderly put more coal on for me . |
| 9 | Shelly : Not mine , because my brush has more water . |
| 10 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 11 | He is a gentleman of complete integrity , ‘ disdainful of all littleness and meanness ’ , to whom honour has more importance than life itself . |
| 12 | A NORTH-EAST company was fined a total of £1,300 with £582 costs for claiming its products contained more meat than they actually did . |
| 13 | She hoped her words carried more conviction than she felt . |
| 14 | Its manufacturers employ more workers in Guangdong than they do in Hong Kong ; its hotels are filled with tourists and salesmen en route for Peking and Guilin ; its accountants , bankers and lawyers service thousands of foreign firms wide-eyed about the profits which they believe will one day be made from a billion Chinese consumers . |
| 15 | In its white paper The Health of the Nation the government has announced its intention to give more priority to preventive health care . |
| 16 | He held her head more tightly as her lips discovered more secrets . |
| 17 | The airline has beefed up the awards provided by its frequent-flier programme , and overhauled its aircraft to give more leg room . |
| 18 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 19 | The women 's organizations are now confident that a unified representative body will be formed and that as a consequence , both their work to incorporate more women into the movement for social justice and a popular democratic government and their work in favour of women 's rights will be greatly strengthened . |
| 20 | The writer has often pondered on the manner of their selection , and likes to feel that their skill carried more weight than their religious affiliations . |
| 21 | While not wishing to comment on the economic arguments for communism in terms of its capacity to create more wealth more equally distributed , an aim Freud thought to be very important for the future , he thought that communism contained an ‘ illusion ’ about man 's nature . |
| 22 | However , the sudden intervention of the princess herself in the speculation about her marriage raised more questions than it answered . |
| 23 | The Agricultural Society are particularly keen to hear from cycling organisations this year as part of their campaign to encourage more visitors to cycle to the showground . |
| 24 | Well , equally you could n't have an A T C Squadron in every small town or village in the country , and therefore they 've got to be , I mean , just as much as Otter Valley Boxing Club has extended its range to get more people , so the A T C have to be in some particular place . |
| 25 | Some anglers add depth to their rigs to take more fish but I have found on the Nene shallowing up can bring better results . |
| 26 | A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee . |
| 27 | Which child needs more calcium and iron ? |
| 28 | SARA had been dreaming and for a moment her dream had more reality than her waking state . |
| 29 | As their celebrations continue more facts emerge with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing up to the final curtain . |
| 30 | The social security system is the most obvious mechanism through which governments inject more money into the economy but there are , of course , other ways . |