Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 2 | Even where you have more flexibility , such as constituency campaigning by local candidates , you may still need to choose your audiences and visitors carefully . |
| 3 | Where you have more people that what you have improvement work for them to do . |
| 4 | You might begin by writing notes and questions to yourself — to check what you already know and where you need more information . |
| 5 | If however , you 're confused about anything this afternoon , or you want more information about , you know , managing time and so on , give me a call please , er , my number is and er , I may not be there , but I do have an answerphone , and I will get back to you as soon as I can . |
| 6 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 7 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 8 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 9 | I sent mine back to John Le Masurier , a former National Coach and now in charge of the Team Secretariat , saying that I needed more competition . |
| 10 | At precisely midnight I lightly prick a lobworm onto the size 6 hook , making sure the hook is only an inch away from the tail-end of the lob , for I have found that I hook more carp when the lobs are impaled in this way . |
| 11 | I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Sadly , mine is a sort of hole in the wall — not possible to move — so I spend more time running back and forth to fetch tools than I do using them . |
| 13 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 14 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 15 | This criterion does not apply to the pronouns he and she ( do n't be fooled by the fact that she has more letters ; it still has only two sounds ) . |
| 16 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 17 | I would like to thank them all for their gifts and their good wishes , ’ said Dorothy , who is looking forward to cultivating a few hobbies now that she has more time . |
| 18 | it is not proud that she has more Bible knowledge than he does . |
| 19 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 20 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 22 | I thought that you had more sense , Sally-Anne . |
| 23 | And after that it 's , it 's partly systematic , that you discover more organisations and you go and look for them , and it 's partly luck , that erm you drop into a library or you meet someone who says ‘ Oh , did you know that erm there are these papers in , in such and such a library ? ’ |
| 24 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 25 | Er girls were never included as horses as I remember it , but nowadays there are of course , which means that you have more boys available to be ploughmen and this perhaps helps the numbers . |
| 26 | Pray every day that God will fill you with the Holy Spirit so that you have more courage to speak up for Jesus . |
| 27 | Stand up for your rights , Aries , but do n't dig your toes in so much that you create more problems for yourself . |
| 28 | After reading this booklet you may feel that you need more information or some extra help . |
| 29 | You are likely to find that you need more fillings when you visit the dentist . |
| 30 | ‘ I enjoy writing historical romances because they are usually longer and so you get more chance to work on character development and detail , ’ he says . |