Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 3 | I 'd envisioned more movement , excitement — fantasy , even . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 5 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 6 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 7 | After I began to earn more money than he did . |
| 8 | After the course , I began taking more interest in how other departments were tackling quality assurance . |
| 9 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 10 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 11 | I kept putting more water in and it got so full . |
| 12 | Quite soon I had received more milirems than a fireman at Chernobyl . |
| 13 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 14 | I wish I had shown more patience . |
| 15 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 16 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 17 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things . |
| 19 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |