Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 2 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |
| 3 | He went on to obtain three more A-levels at school . |
| 4 | From now on applying any more brake really can spell disaster , for the normal mortal at least , because much of the weight is still thrown on to the front tyre and grip is scarce . |
| 5 | He was working against the natural grain of his genius , and the fact that he went on to write two more plays suggests the triumph of will over natural capacity , of idea over sensibility . |
| 6 | Jim has since caught 6 more salmon in Ayrshire rivers on the same fly . |
| 7 | Maybe Claire means it 's all right , she only needs one more hanky . |
| 8 | Nigel says that if he could only win one more race then it would be the British Grand Prix at Silverstone |
| 9 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 10 | Within the first ten days , Boelcke personally added four more planes to his bag . |
| 11 | I 've only got eight more things to get her , I 've already spent about , I do n't know , sixty quid on her . |
| 12 | I 'm losing power on the straights , and the three of you had better work at it because I 've only got one more chance ! ’ |
| 13 | He wondered if Irina had gone out , perhaps to buy some more clothes . |
| 14 | There 's a nice story about my , one of my favourite presidents , I told you last time , Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt got very frustrated with congress so he sent the American navy , he had no money , they would n't give him any money , so he sent the American navy to the Philippines and he said to congress if you want them back again you 'd better vote some more money cos they have n't got any fuel erm which is a fairly odd way of proceeding one might think . |
| 15 | Martin netted a peach of a goal within 17 minutes of his debut at Walsall on January 2 , but he only managed one more goal in the following seven appearances and failed to live up to his Hammers pedigree — he had played for the West ham first team on three occasions . |
| 16 | Lillywhite has only to survive 50 more miles round a city centre circuit in Manchester to don the final Yellow Jersey . |
| 17 | It had only meant one more day of privacy . |
| 18 | you better get some more paper please |
| 19 | This doctor obviously had much more acumen than the locals . |
| 20 | I suddenly felt an immense relief that I only had one more charter to complete for Cutwater , and that I would then be free of these men . |
| 21 | It is encouraging to note that , since 1977 , not only have many more churches been listed , but a serious effort has also been made to find new uses for a much higher percentage of redundant churches — although procedures remain unnecessarily complicated and frustrating . |
| 22 | We only have two more days . ’ |
| 23 | Of course , I 'd expect you to sign an affidavit promising not to extort any more money from Corosini . ’ |
| 24 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 25 | So , if the holder of a bill of exchange were suing the acceptor , and the acceptor were to complain that the holder had treated him hardly , or that the bill ought never to have been circulated , and the holder were to say , Now , if you will not make any more complaints , I will not sue you . |
| 26 | So you could actually , if you 've got , if you then put , if those graphics people were fairly high powered art directors and they did n't , they did n't , they were n't like , did n't have to show all their stuff , that they had enough news sense to not make any more mistakes than most layout people do on newspapers , which are sometimes colossal , like burying the lead or putting the big story on page thirty-eight , you know . |
| 27 | He said , on repeated occasions , that he did not want any more families . |
| 28 | This is a permanent method of contraception and is only recommended for those who are absolutely sure that they do not want any more children . |
| 29 | This is a permanent method of contraception and is only recommended for those who are absolutely sure that they do not want any more children . |
| 30 | But because the connections between these diverse types of explanation are not analysed , they do not throw any more light on the idea that holism and individualism answer to distinct explanatory interests . |