Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 2 | I sent mine back to John Le Masurier , a former National Coach and now in charge of the Team Secretariat , saying that I needed more competition . |
| 3 | At precisely midnight I lightly prick a lobworm onto the size 6 hook , making sure the hook is only an inch away from the tail-end of the lob , for I have found that I hook more carp when the lobs are impaled in this way . |
| 4 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 5 | This criterion does not apply to the pronouns he and she ( do n't be fooled by the fact that she has more letters ; it still has only two sounds ) . |
| 6 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 7 | I would like to thank them all for their gifts and their good wishes , ’ said Dorothy , who is looking forward to cultivating a few hobbies now that she has more time . |
| 8 | it is not proud that she has more Bible knowledge than he does . |
| 9 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 10 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 12 | I thought that you had more sense , Sally-Anne . |
| 13 | And after that it 's , it 's partly systematic , that you discover more organisations and you go and look for them , and it 's partly luck , that erm you drop into a library or you meet someone who says ‘ Oh , did you know that erm there are these papers in , in such and such a library ? ’ |
| 14 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 15 | Er girls were never included as horses as I remember it , but nowadays there are of course , which means that you have more boys available to be ploughmen and this perhaps helps the numbers . |
| 16 | Pray every day that God will fill you with the Holy Spirit so that you have more courage to speak up for Jesus . |
| 17 | Stand up for your rights , Aries , but do n't dig your toes in so much that you create more problems for yourself . |
| 18 | After reading this booklet you may feel that you need more information or some extra help . |
| 19 | You are likely to find that you need more fillings when you visit the dentist . |
| 20 | It 's the richness of the language — that we know more filth than anybody else . |
| 21 | We could hear the groan of their engines for so long that we thought more vehicles were approaching . |
| 22 | Right so we 'll just look at the sort of er the negative side of not making the time that we get more mistakes . |
| 23 | Do we want to live in a society in which making money is all that matters , or are there other objectives that we hold more dear . |
| 24 | It 's certainly the case that we need more publicity for the sectional structure and you have a broadsheet which is being circulated , which starts the process of publicizing the structure of the union , how the regional and industrial structure works together . |
| 25 | It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people . |
| 26 | He rightly points out that we need more ladies toilets and if you know you get the chance to use the ladies loo it 's cleaner and better looked after than the men 's , I 've heard . |
| 27 | He argues that we need more practice-orientated research , but indicates some of the obstacles that need to be surmounted if that is to happen . |
| 28 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 29 | I felt that we needed more energy on record . |
| 30 | We both decided that we needed more detector users to help us on the day , so John contacted members of the Shropshire Antiquities Group , who were more than willing to lend a helping hand . |