Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] more [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
2 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
3 | In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands . |
4 | ‘ She was told she needed more experience nursing very sick children . ’ |
5 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
6 | Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . |
7 | She drank more coffee to conceal her expression . |
8 | So you reckon if you had more time to think about an overall , sort of , web , if you like , of |
9 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
10 | Faith was done with old-fashioned equipment ; we needed more equipment to do the water-crossings ahead . |
11 | ‘ We regretted having to do it , but we had more people attending the Christmas parties last year than we have employees at Wilton . ’ |
12 | That 's when you know they got more crime committed round and Valley then , cos there was a lot more kids up there . |
13 | As they arrived more people wanted to know what was going on . |
14 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
15 | THE simultaneous publication by national newspapers of a common code of practice and declaration of principles was postponed last night after the chairman and editors of Express Newspapers decided that they needed more time to examine the proposals . |
16 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
17 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
18 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
19 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
20 | He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat . |
21 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
22 | Soon Gabrielle learned to leave him alone in his despair , and he spent more time playing darts and billiards at a Battersea pub . |
23 | It needed more lights to make it brighter . |
24 | I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did . |
25 | Lacking political support , Collor turned to the courts to question the legality of the impeachment process while claiming that he needed more time to prepare his defence against the corruption charges . |
26 | William of Jumièges , elaborated by William of Poitiers , reports that Edward set sail with forty ships , crossed to Southampton , defeated a large English force , and returned to Normandy after realising that he needed more men to obtain the kingdom . |
27 | He insisted more resources have been poured in . |
28 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
29 | ‘ Well , Mrs Cohen , I wo n't keep you , ’ he said , not wishing to delay himself when he had more money to earn and no prospect of any worthwhile gossip from this quarter . |
30 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |