Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that he 's been out that long you know Alan and Cooper he 'll not want to miss any more football surely ? |
| 2 | My stomach muscles were up to it , but I did n't want to lose any more teeth . |
| 3 | The parents did not want to attend any more sessions and treatment was therefore terminated . |
| 4 | The bottom line with Motif , he argues , is that Sun does n't want to support any more toolkits . |
| 5 | Once Pip has found out that Magwitch is actually his benefactor he does n't want to accept any more money as he feels it is n't right . |
| 6 | Although he had only met her briefly , he did not want to meet any more girls . |
| 7 | Spatial information can be held in immediate memory and reproduced accurately , just as verbal material can , although verbal immediate memory has received much more research attention . |
| 8 | Did this mean that the historical sequence so far set up had to be modified to accommodate much more variety , and was the specifically European focus of the scheme in some way too parochial ? |
| 9 | * The government has designated four more wetlands under the Ramsar Convention : Chippenham Fen , Cambridgeshire ; the Exe Estuary , Devon ; Lindisfarne , Northumberland ; and Old Hall Marshes , Essex . |
| 10 | The brutal , underlining truth of this contest is that , though Labour was bitterly disappointed by the election , the Kinnock line of disciplined moderation has earned 41 more seats and the stone , so far from rolling to the bottom of the mountain , is two thirds of the way up . |
| 11 | The second reason , which has attracted much more publicity , is the steady , but slow , net emigration of Serbs and Montenegrins from Kosovo . |
| 12 | French maker Renault , meanwhile , has added two more models to its curiously-named Tractor range . |
| 13 | Motorola Inc has won two more adherents in Europe for the PowerPC : Tandberg Data Display A/S of Norway will use it in its high-end desktop products — future X-terminals , presumably , and MacroTek GmbH of Dortmund , has developed a line of High Bandwidth Resource Interface Controller support chips for PowerPC . |
| 14 | Now Allan Ahlberg has written two more stories about the same skeletons , and they 're just as good . |
| 15 | Similarly , the privatisation of nationalised industries has turned millions more citizens into shareholders . |
| 16 | The privatisation of nationalised industries has turned millions more citizens into shareholders . |
| 17 | Despite this reserve , the figure of Oedipus has made much more impact upon the theory of male development than has that of Electra upon female development . |
| 18 | A recently widowed friend of mine , well into her 80s , writes to say that she ‘ was asked to speak on bereavement-coping at a conference of social works and has had two more bookings as a result . ’ |
| 19 | 3.05 : Typed letter to parent about child 's fit on the bus this morning , he has had two more fits during the day . |
| 20 | if you look at the cure of erm th the Blind Man of Bethsiedum which happened a little earlier , a similar thing happens when Jesus cures his sight , he ca n't see at first and Jesus has to do some more work on him with spit , spittle and er you know the , but there 's something behind that it 's not just a er a nature miracle , sorry a healing miracle overcoming physical ailments , that 's spectacular in itself but the can take something else on board here without the attitude of people and their willingness to accept who Jesus was and what his details of participant Bartiamaus had been given the vision he 'd been given was more than just his eyesight . |
| 21 | Oops oops hello Jess all these blown up things all round the house no no no no no Charlotte do n't hit the dog , that 's it you cuddle Jessie darling in your chair in your chair go on move I do n't know why she wants to play with that that 's for crawling around with you do n't need to crawl any more Charlotte . |
| 22 | By contrast , a ‘ Solarz for President ’ campaign sounds improbable : the congressman has spent much more time in Asia than in Iowa . |
| 23 | ‘ Even Husak has spent many more years in jail than I have , ’ he said . |
| 24 | What caused me concern was , as I say , the slightly uncomfortable feeling that Eliot had been bounced into writing an article which he did not particularly relish doing and to which he would in any case have wished to devote much more reflection . |
| 25 | South Wales has gained two more memorials of particular note in the last few years . |
| 26 | If our style is reserved and peaceful , a gentle climax is enough , but if we are forceful and aggressive , it has to have much more duration , body , and weight . |
| 27 | But if you want to have some more lessons you want if you do n't want to you can tell me now or |
| 28 | I 'm going to move on because I want to get one more call in and that 's Pat from Kidlington — hello Pat . |
| 29 | I want to get some more moulding to match that in my hallway . |
| 30 | There is always pressure on its limited resources , but the recession has left many more Institute members in need of help . |