Example sentences of "i had more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like .
2 I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others .
3 I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out .
4 I wrote a few postcards — I had more faith in Bolivia 's postal service than Peru 's — and wondered what I was doing here .
5 A lot of my clothes are holey , and if I had more money I definitely would dress quite differently .
6 Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so .
7 I had more guilt feelings than anything else .
8 They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before .
9 I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says .
10 When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’
11 I asked , rather wishing I had more clothes on .
12 With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own .
13 But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control .
14 As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers .
15 The Tauregs know every nook and cranny in the Hoggars , and proved excellent guides , but every ride was a bumpy one , and by the end of the day I had more need of the masseurs than the runners did ! ’
16 I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’
17 ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’
18 In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands .
19 They would wait until I had more time .
20 I wish I had more time for reading ; it means a lot to me . ’
21 At some point I did wonder whether I had more humiliation and torture to look forward to .
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