Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 2 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 3 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 4 | The romanticism of the period upset her more than the blood . |
| 5 | She wanted the turtle to tell her more about this Love Your Enemies scheme , and she would have asked him , but all of a sudden they heard a tremendous HAR-ROOMF ! |
| 6 | All the same , I feel that the myth-making tells us more about Hughes than about Shakespeare . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
| 8 | It was bad enough when Edward Hyde was only an unknown name , but now that the lawyer knew something about Hyde , the will worried him more than ever . |
| 9 | He also uses personification rather a lot throughout the novel to give us more of an idea of what he was experiencing . |
| 10 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 11 | Just as Harry was preparing to aim a kick at this driver where it might hurt , the man offered him more milk , saying that he was a Frenchman doing forced labour and had recognised Harry 's RAF uniform — by now extremely unsuitable for pay parade ! |
| 12 | Turning from the attractions of the Scotch whisky industry , can the Minister give us more information about the important regulatory aspects of getting companies which sub-contract to the Ministry of Defence to pay their bills or have them paid quickly ? |
| 13 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 14 | ‘ He has damaged the ligaments but the nature of the injury makes us more hopeful of recovery than we would be from some ankle injuries . ’ |
| 15 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |