Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I tend to eat more chicken and fish and things like that now |
| 2 | I want to spend more time at home and in my constituency . ’ |
| 3 | More needs to be done and I want to see more focus on this key area of economic policy . ’ |
| 4 | The sci-fi movie , filmed at Pinewood Studios , is the last such epic for Sigourney , she says , adding : ‘ I want to do more love stories . |
| 5 | I want to get more experience under my belt . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to hear more stories , ’ Walterkin said . |
| 7 | Also , I hope to do more travelling and my garden is in need of attention ! ’ |
| 8 | I hope to have more details for you in the next Journal . |
| 9 | Firstly , that I seem to spend more time out of the house than in it , and then more time away from home than at home , and finally but just as significantly , more time just watching the world go by then dashing around with it . |
| 10 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 11 | A born raconteur , the racy style of his lectures , with his well known yarns — the most famous being that of the ‘ Woman who did ’ — I suspect got more chemistry into our thick heads than did the much admired cool , classic perfection of the lectures of Prof F. L. Pyman . |
| 12 | ‘ I do think more people want en suite bathrooms but rooms without these facilities are obviously cheaper — so it depends on what people want to spend , ’ says Alison Hewitt , co-owner of 17th century coaching inn , the White Hart Hotel , on the Wold , Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | As yet we do not have details on exact numbers , but when I do get more information , I will be back in touch . |
| 14 | I do believe more women would broaden the agenda . |
| 15 | I 'm still conscious of what I wear , I have n't completely lost track of fashion , but I do take more care now to see that my body is well covered , especially my head . |
| 16 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 17 | He is much faster than Newsome and I think shows more promise . |
| 18 | I tell you , I 've seen more variety in a tin of sardines . |
| 19 | And of Katherine Hepburn : ‘ She ran the gamut of expressions from A to B. ’ One-liners that catch the eye include : The best play I ever slept through ; I 've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella ; I saw the play at a disadvantage — the curtain was up ; The scenery was beautiful but the actors got in front of it ; When Mr Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell , he underestimates the distance . ’ |
| 20 | I 've seen more energy in a darts champion . |
| 21 | I mean I 've I 've chased more people off |
| 22 | I 've chased more people off than the security has . |
| 23 | I 've made more piece just that |
| 24 | Billican looked over the rails at him on hearing his cries and replied quite dryly , " What the hell is he shouting about I 've drunk more beer than he 's swimming in " . |
| 25 | I 've read more pages . |
| 26 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 27 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 28 | He had 17 management jobs in total including Scotland , Chelsea , Manchester United , FC Porto and Queens Park Rangers , and he will be immortalised by his own self-deprecating one-liner , ‘ I 've had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus , but he used them better . ‘ |
| 29 | I 've had more fun wiping the blood of a blue-bottomed bloggert off my broadsword than watching that pile of pus ! |
| 30 | I 've had more fun since I 've been forty , sexually than what I have all fucking . |