Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 2 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 3 | The shanny and marine stickleback have five pigments in their eyes , allowing them to discern more hues than we can . |
| 4 | The University seeks to include in its courses activities which promote enterprising qualities in its students by encouraging them to take more responsibility for their own learning , setting their own goals and targets through personal assessment and career planning . |
| 5 | to enable them to have more management time , like we 're looking at trying to get them to reduce their work their case loads |
| 6 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 7 | Second , by pooling their financial resources , the merging companies may enjoy better creditworthiness and access to cheaper borrowing , enabling them to take more risks and finance larger research projects . |
| 8 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 9 | Which yeah I said well there 's nobody else , I said they get on and you say I want more money but he said it 's a nightmare . |
| 10 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 11 | D' ya know more women su suffer from multiple sclerosis than men ? |
| 12 | Has she appointed more members in the interval , or is she proposing to talk to herself ? |
| 13 | Not only has she attracted more publicity than any other naval vessel since the Mary Rose , but she was n't even entirely British . |
| 14 | D' you want more tea ? |
| 15 | Perhaps I ring up Irena and say you need more French ? |
| 16 | ‘ Now I want him to have more shots on goal and get on the end of more chances . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 18 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 19 | The police say they need more information from the public … particularly to find the murder weapon . |
| 20 | The police say they need more information from the public , particularly to find the murder weapon . |
| 21 | In fact , skin specialists say they see more patients who are suffering the effects of overdoing cleansing rather than because they have not cleansed enough . |
| 22 | Has it attracted more custom ? |
| 23 | Can I put it another way , has it got more benefits than dis- 5 Erm , D |
| 24 | And it is not enough to devote four pages to ‘ sexual orientation ’ and then lamely say it deserves more attention . |
| 25 | Consequently , I was not surprised in our seminar discussions to find myself directing more questions and raising more problems when we were talking about structure and discourse than when the focus was on lexis . |
| 26 | I was confused by all these solicitous questions , and found myself telling more lies than I had to . |
| 27 | Even so , you 're going to find yourself needing more club on approach shots . |
| 28 | The logic of their own methods is thus pushing them to buy more parts locally — for their own reasons , regardless of political rules demanding higher local content . |
| 29 | They 've made me have more humility and compassion . |
| 30 | That going in the form of higher spending power to the workers themselves allows them to buy more goods or services . |