Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a short spell of relief , most of it spent down Channel in atrocious summer weather as I remember , but it was enough to whet my appetite for more , and the start of a long love affair with Venturous . |
| 2 | In the short time available to her on 16th October Hilary could do no more than give a very sketchy account of her visit but enough to whet our appetites for more . |
| 3 | The gifts were tokens of the wishes of the tribal chiefs and took the form of gold and silver bullion , reflecting their need for more power and prestige , and weapons to gain greater martial success against other tribes in the annual border affrays . |
| 4 | GMTV took over the morning franchise from TV-am and last month brought in LWT 's chief executive Greg Dyke as chairman to spearhead its fight for more viewers . |
| 5 | In a very short space of time , she had demolished two more such beef sandwiches supplied by Mr Beckenham , with the addition of a large slice of pie , the whole washed down with gulps of water in between , only so that she might clear her mouth for more food . |
| 6 | The idea is to offer ES/9000 users a means of meeting their requirement for more capacity without having to upgrade their mainframes and pay IBM higher software licence fees . |
| 7 | Telephone our Helpline for more information . |
| 8 | CAMPAIGNERS look likely to win their fight for more nursery places in an area of Darlington which they claim has been deprived for years . |
| 9 | If you 've not used the colour changer before , or not used your ribber for more than welts , it is wise to start by using the colour changer just to knit striped plain rib . |
| 10 | The plan may also encounter obstacles from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council , which will put pressure on institutions to use their space for more of each day , week and year before cash is released for expanding space . |
| 11 | Upon each occasion the contact was only fleeting and he was careful to leave her longing for more . |
| 12 | THE PEACE train organisation is renewing its campaign for more people to sign a Declaration for Peace petition . |
| 13 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 14 | The row has been bubbling since October but China has intensified its attacks since Friday when British governor of Hong Kong , Chris Patten , decided to publish his plans for more democracy in the territory . |
| 15 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 16 | Patten rap : China today unleashed a fresh attack on Hong Kong governor Chris Patten , saying his proposals for more democracy in the colony that returns to Peking 's rule in 1997 can never be accepted . |
| 17 | Contact your dealer for more information . |
| 18 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 19 | They urged him to back their campaign for more funding and for the idea of performance related pay to be abandoned . |
| 20 | Tom Kite revamped his swing for more distance and then his putting touch deserted him . |
| 21 | KENNETH CLARKE , the Secretary of State for Health , yesterday took his battle for more money for the health service to the conference hall at the annual Conservative Party conference in Blackpool . |
| 22 | All ages are interested in the sport and some men have even left their wives for more time to fish ! |
| 23 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 24 | In 1985 , a primary school headmaster in Cornwall was found , in an inquiry published by the County Council , to have been sexually molesting his pupils for more than a decade . |
| 25 | Those invigorating tramps across the springy heather merely whetted my appetite for more . |
| 26 | He was responding to an observation made by planning chief , Mr Ross Chisholm , who said parked buses often ran their engines for more than the permitted two minutes . |
| 27 | Eddie Hogan 's face was working with distress : beside him Annabel raked her face for more information . |
| 28 | When they do , he 's probably so busy making tea , answering their demands for more sugar , and looking for his favourite mug in the debris that he ca n't concentrate on his red boxes . |
| 29 | From her days as a newsreader on ITN through to Breakfast Time with Frank Bough and more recently The Clothes Show and BSkyB News , Selina 's cool aloofness has tantalised her audience for more than a decade . |
| 30 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |