Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb base] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that , whatever I do here in this world I 'm in , I just get more and more money |
| 2 | Well , I do n't want your sympathy , and I do n't want you as a sister — I already have more than I can handle in that department , thank you . ’ |
| 3 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 4 | I never have more than the permitted amount of duty-free goods ; I 've never imported plants , or dogs , or drugs , or uncooked meat , or firearms ; and yet I constantly find myself wanting to turn the wheel and head for the Red Channel . |
| 5 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 6 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 7 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 8 | ‘ You probably know more than I do , ’ Melissa interposed . |
| 9 | He 's on reserves and they say that we already have more than our quota per pupil than most other places . ’ |
| 10 | We often say more than we need , perhaps to mark a sense of occasion , or respect ; and we often say less than we need , perhaps to be rude , or blunt , or forthright . |
| 11 | We certainly achieve more than other animals . |
| 12 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
| 13 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 14 | Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact . |
| 15 | When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process . |
| 16 | They often require more than their fair share of your time . |
| 17 | When philosophers dismiss women as ‘ not-men ’ they frequently do more than simply lump them together with children or lunatics . |
| 18 | They are very much a part of the scene nowadays and they certainly deserve more than a derisory four laps . |
| 19 | I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product . |