Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 3 | I 'd envisioned more movement , excitement — fantasy , even . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 5 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 6 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 7 | After I began to earn more money than he did . |
| 8 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 9 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 10 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 11 | I kept putting more water in and it got so full . |
| 12 | Quite soon I had received more milirems than a fireman at Chernobyl . |
| 13 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 14 | I wish I had shown more patience . |
| 15 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 16 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 17 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things . |
| 19 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 20 | In a hard-hitting editorial , the journal 's editors challenge the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe government 's new Economic Structural Adjustment Programme ( ESAP ) which promised to create more jobs and opportunities for ordinary people . |
| 21 | On the heathland of north-west Norfolk many poor men of no military value were ignored until taxed on wages in the subsidy ; above the £1-level people there resembled those who lived farther to the east , except that the outstanding men were great landowners and yeomen , in contrast to the north-eastern district , where peasants were firmly entrenched , usually taking the initiative over enclosure , which had made more progress there . |
| 22 | In London , for instance , the most severely affected boroughs like Hackney and Tower Hamlets , with male unemployment rates of over 28 per cent in 1986 , had already seen sharp rises in joblessness between 1971 and 1981 , which had driven more people to work outside the boroughs of residence and brought a marked fall in the numbers of women in paid work ( Townsend el al. , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Joseph himself had attracted more laughter by excusing himself before dinner and going directly to horses ; there he had fallen immediately into a deep , peaceful sleep that lasted until the dawn cries of the jungle birds roused him , and when he rose he had felt clear-headed and exultant . |
| 24 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't eat enough , me love , you got to put more flesh on you . |
| 26 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 29 | When you erm look back on it now , do you wish you 'd had more education at all when you were younger ? |
| 30 | If you 'd taken more care … ’ |