Example sentences of "you [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 2 | Hens got extra feed and you got more eggs . |
| 3 | So if you got more post in , or your productivity in the servicing sections is down , from two point seven it 's down actually at two point six is what we 're achieving , we 're marginally out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course you needed more money . |
| 6 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 7 | At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose , ’ Bill essays , ‘ if you had more money this arrangement … ’ |
| 9 | I thought that you had more sense , Sally-Anne . |
| 10 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 11 | So you reckon if you had more time to think about an overall , sort of , web , if you like , of |
| 12 | If you had more time round , you 'd use that sort of language with themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you had more courage . ’ |
| 14 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 15 | I thought you had more self-control . |
| 16 | If you wanted more money , you should have gone in for doctoring , academicking , police inspectoring or company secretarying . |
| 17 | You wanted more humour — perhaps we sometimes forget that fishkeeping is fun — so we recruited Old Fishfinger and started our Newswatch column to monitor the strange and humorous . |
| 18 | ‘ I should have asked you if you wanted more tea , ’ Marriage said , suddenly remorseful . |