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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 .