Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Morrell attempts damage limitation by telling her boss to keep his mouth shut and not rock the boat , but on he goes collecting more enemies and being let down by erstwhile friends . |
| 2 | It feels as if he has met more children than any other group of the population during the campaign . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’ |
| 4 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 5 | Granted , if his deficit-reduction plan eventually gets through Congress relatively unscathed , he will be able to claim that he has done more good in an important area of policy than either of his predecessors . |
| 6 | NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to . |
| 7 | No one would suggest that he rivals Sobers as the greatest of all-rounders , for , although he has taken more wickets , his batting has been much less consistent and his Test average is some twenty-three points lower than Sobers ' . |
| 8 | Woosnam names Bernhard Langer as his ‘ dark horse ’ and the German has succeeded in keeping an appropriately low profile even if he has had more practice rounds than anyone . |
| 9 | Property expert Kevin Dibben said : ‘ It 's a nice house but he has spent more time and effort on the property than it is worth . |
| 10 | This explains why it is strictly impossible to omit to in : ( 35 ) He needs to do more exercise . |
| 11 | He wants to do more programmes as well as record more good songs . |
| 12 | He says he wants to spend more time in his constituency . |
| 13 | Norman Lamont delivers his budget and tells the House he wants to spend more time with his family . |
| 14 | Among other things he plans to spend more time gardening at his home in Bookham , Surrey , where he lives with his wife Alison and two teenage daughters . |
| 15 | At his farewell , received various gifts from the company and workmates , and said that he plans to devote more time to his allotment and to his duties of vice-chairman and bar-chairman at the Ipswich Conservative Club . |
| 16 | THE unemployed can do without Peter Lilley 's daft comments as he plans to make more people jobless . |
| 17 | When talking about marking off the stretchers he seems to place more importance on the length of the tenon than the distance between the shoulders . |
| 18 | He seems to have more idea than the ould feller . ’ |
| 19 | Nolan lists some diseases he seems to have more success with than others : arthritis , migraine , bad backs , depression , ME . |
| 20 | He expects to raise more money from a small corporations which will pay for 12 months research and development work at the abandoned well . |
| 21 | The Prince of Wales has said he wishes to see more blacks in the Brigade of Guards . |
| 22 | Caution will be the name of the game as he attempts to collect more points and take another step towards fulfilling his ambition of winning all remaining fixtures before the December retirement . |
| 23 | he 's made more money you can make more money |
| 24 | There 's the fact that if he gets it wrong he 's lost more money and therefore his , you might say insurable risk is a higher one . |
| 25 | Erm , I think the Director has advised me , and he 's had more experience at these matters not to respond to that , and |
| 26 | ‘ I only hope he 's had more sense than to leave her money ! |
| 27 | If he 's had more time between the engine signing off and the aircraft hitting the ground , he could probably have dumped the drop tanks and jettisoned the canopy . |
| 28 | He 's had more jobs than I 've had hot dinners |
| 29 | He 's got more sense . |
| 30 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |