Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 2 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 3 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 4 | While working class women increasingly went out to work , usually out of economic necessity , philanthropists and policy makers increasingly urged them to pay more attention to their duties as wives and mothers , which only tended to exacerbate the difficulties they experienced . |
| 5 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 6 | Among the most striking of its findings were that all those surveyed said they had more confidence in statements on biotechnology made by environment and consumers ' groups than in those issuing from government or industry . |
| 7 | Er and then similarly to that they er were said to seek agreement by Lakehoff she said they used more questions and more tag questions . |
| 8 | Bosnian Muslims said they wanted more territory than had been offered under a proposed peace plan . |
| 9 | His lectures would have been more lucrative had they attracted more women . |