Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 25 France announced the suspension of aid , and the last French troops were withdrawn on Oct. 30 in spite of calls from the opposition for them to remain to prevent more killing . |
| 2 | Do I want to buy more hash , a chunky offering for my wicker mini-basket ? |
| 3 | But I tend to eat more chicken and fish and things like that now |
| 4 | I want to spend more time at home and in my constituency . ’ |
| 5 | More needs to be done and I want to see more focus on this key area of economic policy . ’ |
| 6 | The sci-fi movie , filmed at Pinewood Studios , is the last such epic for Sigourney , she says , adding : ‘ I want to do more love stories . |
| 7 | I want to get more experience under my belt . |
| 8 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 9 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 10 | I 'd envisioned more movement , excitement — fantasy , even . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 12 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 13 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 14 | Also , I hope to do more travelling and my garden is in need of attention ! ’ |
| 15 | Firstly , that I seem to spend more time out of the house than in it , and then more time away from home than at home , and finally but just as significantly , more time just watching the world go by then dashing around with it . |
| 16 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 17 | A born raconteur , the racy style of his lectures , with his well known yarns — the most famous being that of the ‘ Woman who did ’ — I suspect got more chemistry into our thick heads than did the much admired cool , classic perfection of the lectures of Prof F. L. Pyman . |
| 18 | After I began to earn more money than he did . |
| 19 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 20 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 21 | I kept putting more water in and it got so full . |
| 22 | As yet we do not have details on exact numbers , but when I do get more information , I will be back in touch . |
| 23 | I 'm still conscious of what I wear , I have n't completely lost track of fashion , but I do take more care now to see that my body is well covered , especially my head . |
| 24 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 25 | He is much faster than Newsome and I think shows more promise . |
| 26 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 27 | I wish I had shown more patience . |
| 28 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 29 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 30 | I tell you , I 've seen more variety in a tin of sardines . |