Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ replied Burton , ‘ but I get more money . ’ |
| 2 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 3 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 4 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 5 | But I have more friends who are willing to admit publicly that they know me ! |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation . |
| 7 | She would n't hear of it to begin with , but I see more evidence of it every day . |
| 8 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 9 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 11 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
| 12 | But she reckons more people would watch the ailing show if organisers banned foreign singing . |
| 13 | Since some speakers ( those who have low " competence " ) do not use many Patois features anyway , these speakers will have a lower Patois index than other speakers who code switch to the same extent , but who use more Patois features in the Patois part of their talk . |
| 14 | ‘ But we realised more work was needed on teaching people how to design and implement effectively the training necessary to fill gaps . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We regretted having to do it , but we had more people attending the Christmas parties last year than we have employees at Wilton . ’ |
| 16 | In answer to Des Smith 's question , yes , there are people who care but we need more articles like his to turn that into effective support . |
| 17 | The Liberal Democrats did much less well than had the Alliance in 1986 in terms of votes , but they had more success in targeting and retaining council seats . |
| 18 | D. Farms are smaller than those of East Anglia but they use more labour . |
| 19 | I wo n't say more intelligent , but they get more attention . ’ |
| 20 | But they want more plastic to be recycled . |
| 21 | Management says improvements are in hand but they need more money for modernisation . |
| 22 | United Nations troops have been doing what they can to protect the besieged Muslims , but they need more men . |
| 23 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 24 | They have got an accent this 's got one but he sounds more Lancashire than anything . |
| 25 | But he had more craft and policy , more capacity to wait , to present a good face to the world , and to advance step by step towards his goal . |
| 26 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |
| 27 | The challenge was taken up by Harry Baker , who being provided with a weight placed it in a backet and walked from Halling Institute to Snodland Institute , so winning the bet , but he had more difficulty collecting his winnings . |
| 28 | He did n't eat much food but he drank more rum than usual . |
| 29 | Not only was it more convenient for his financial deals in international negotiations to be done there , but he needed more dancers . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's a funny old goat , ’ the pilot said , ‘ but he has more goodness in him than the rest of the city put together . |