Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
2 | The next day I got all my guns ready and I put more wood and young trees around my house . |
3 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
4 | Now that the good weather has arrived I feel trapped in the shop , and I want more time to enjoy other interests such as cricket and walking . |
5 | Despite archaeological discoveries which are still being made year by year and which throw more light upon the Etruscan civilisation , knowledge of these people , their origins , their way of life is still far from complete . |
6 | Inoculations , crossbreeding of animals and the use of hormones are producing better livestock , which resist diseases , which fatten faster , and which give more milk , wool or eggs . |
7 | S3 This is a critical year where decisions about which pupils are likely to prove to be good Higher Candidates and which need more consolidation and a slower pace are taken . |
8 | I says and you 've more daylight then |
9 | and I , I always felt if we have a change onto this er new system of er , of these quilts , I , I you know , I were n't too sure , but once you 've changed I do n't think you 'd ever want to go back because in winter time when it 's a bit cooler and you put more blanket on to keep warmer and then it becomes heavy |
10 | For Nicola Field : ‘ As you go on working you learn and you gain more experience and you start to get frustrated with being a side-kick and having your ideas continually being taken up and used by someone else . ’ |
11 | All power-ups can be upgraded a maximum of five times , and you get more money to spend after each race depending on your finishing position . |
12 | If your children have left home and you have more space than you need , you could consider taking in lodgers , either as paying guests or , if your property lends itself to the creation of a separate flatlet , in a tenancy capacity . |
13 | There 's the same amount of work and you have more interest for your time off . ’ |
14 | If you do not understand how it works and you want more information about the method used then I again refer you to the books I have written on 1-2-3 and SuperCalc . |
15 | " Is n't that a bit selfish ? " chided a colleague whose opinion she respected , and who stood more chance than most of applying the brakes . |
16 | He began to sing Lucenzo 's praises , and she paid more attention . |
17 | And we eat more convenience foods , high in calories : burgers , pizzas , Indian and Chinese food , cakes , biscuits and pastries . |
18 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
19 | ‘ Coast defence work is necessary because the area is flooded 50 days of the year , and we have more chance of attracting business investment by removing the threat of flooding . |
20 | The only reason is that we are younger and we have more freedom , we can do what we like . |
21 | ‘ I think we are at least as strong as the Oxford crew physically and we have more experience , though the ages of the crews are almost identical . |
22 | An equally celebrated study in its day , and one deserving more attention even today , was that undertaken by Robert and Helen Lynd working from Columbia in 1924 – 5 . |
23 | But then they need more and more heroin , and they need more money to buy the drug . |
24 | The advantages in the use of cylinder-type batteries are that such batteries have no snap terminal to splay or fold under , and they have more stamina when used as a group than an equivalent voltage single PP3 . |
25 | Here the farmers grow barley , oats and roots , and they have more land in rotation grass which yields larger crops of hay and silage . |
26 | They have more secondary , and they have more area but it 's still spatial . |
27 | The London employer of women , Straker , similarly claimed that " they come and go more readily , and they want more accommodation … |
28 | There are now many types of condom available and they allow more sensitivity than they used to . |
29 | As a result his writing becomes less concerned with immediate political concerns and he had more time for reading and research . |
30 | With the house came two hundred acres and he added more land later , planting woods which were bequeathed to the nation , with the house . |