Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] more " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 ! |
3 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
4 | He also uses personification rather a lot throughout the novel to give us more of an idea of what he was experiencing . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |