Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | to enable them to have more management time , like we 're looking at trying to get them to reduce their work their case loads |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Not only has she attracted more publicity than any other naval vessel since the Mary Rose , but she was n't even entirely British . |
| 7 | D' you want more tea ? |
| 8 | Perhaps I ring up Irena and say you need more French ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The police say they need more information from the public … particularly to find the murder weapon . |
| 12 | The police say they need more information from the public , particularly to find the murder weapon . |
| 13 | Has it attracted more custom ? |
| 14 | And it is not enough to devote four pages to ‘ sexual orientation ’ and then lamely say it deserves more attention . |
| 15 | Even so , you 're going to find yourself needing more club on approach shots . |
| 16 | They 've made me have more humility and compassion . |
| 17 | In this way he not only develops his people , he also frees himself to spend more time on other aspects of his work ( for example , planning decisions , communications with other areas and personnel problems ) . |
| 18 | She says she needs more time , but we know she is lying . |
| 19 | Whereas when we write we have to conform to fairly strict rules of grammar , when we speak we have more choice in the way we employ language . |
| 20 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 21 | But Mr Harper says he needs more help . |
| 22 | Now he has been promoted and says he needs more time . |
| 23 | One delegation from Oxford City Council says it needs more cash to serve an extra thirteen thousand people whose homes now fall within the the city boundaries . |
| 24 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 25 | I hope my movie is better than that : I certainly hope it makes more money . |
| 26 | The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk . |
| 27 | I 'm going to see you get more education . |
| 28 | I 've had I think more experience of what a rape in court than Sir Nicholas . |
| 29 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 30 | erm I 'd still like you to do more work on differentiation . |