Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] more [noun sg] " 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 | You might begin by writing notes and questions to yourself — to check what you already know and where you need more information . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | it is not proud that she has more Bible knowledge than he does . |
| 13 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 14 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 15 | I thought that you had more sense , Sally-Anne . |
| 16 | Pray every day that God will fill you with the Holy Spirit so that you have more courage to speak up for Jesus . |
| 17 | After reading this booklet you may feel that you need more information or some extra help . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | You have to pour the custard on , and the they ask for more custard so you pour more custard on and you could just leave it . |
| 20 | They make sure you you know why they do that , so then you can go out and buy another game another one of their games and then this so then just keep on clocking them up yeah , and go out to buy a m more games so you spend more money of their games . |
| 21 | it 's just the surround , although we have more surround , well no not more surround here , but it 's a different layout |
| 22 | It 's the richness of the language — that we know more filth than anybody else . |
| 23 | Do we want to live in a society in which making money is all that matters , or are there other objectives that we hold more dear . |
| 24 | It 's certainly the case that we need more publicity for the sectional structure and you have a broadsheet which is being circulated , which starts the process of publicizing the structure of the union , how the regional and industrial structure works together . |
| 25 | He argues that we need more practice-orientated research , but indicates some of the obstacles that need to be surmounted if that is to happen . |
| 26 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 27 | I felt that we needed more energy on record . |
| 28 | We both decided that we needed more detector users to help us on the day , so John contacted members of the Shropshire Antiquities Group , who were more than willing to lend a helping hand . |
| 29 | Furthermore , both I and my right hon. and learned Friend have made it clear that we want more education provided locally for adults than is currently available . |
| 30 | In her book , The Prime of Your Life , Dr Miriam Stoppard writes , ‘ Living in the twentieth century means that we feel more stress than any members of the human race have ever felt . ’ |