Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ replied Burton , ‘ but I get more money . ’ |
| 2 | more of them , not only the young people , of course not , but I mean more of them , I know there always were some of more than there was before it has changed every value , even moral values and everything like that , have changed a lot the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 3 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 4 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 5 | And perhaps our marriage did n't last long , but I had more of him than you 'll ever have . |
| 6 | Whatever they get up to is their own business , but I wish more of them would stay open . |
| 7 | I have shared this with a number of you personally , but I thought more of you might be interested . |
| 8 | Feminism is a given — but I want more than the political outline . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , but I want more than that . |
| 10 | But I have more friends who are willing to admit publicly that they know me ! |
| 11 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation . |
| 13 | She would n't hear of it to begin with , but I see more evidence of it every day . |
| 14 | But I see more than Rainbow does : I see something else coming over the wall . |
| 15 | My family think I should only eat at meal times , and only in small quantities , but I need more than that — my stomach rumbles all the time between meals . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , no , ’ she said , ‘ I mean , I 'd love to , but I need more than that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I love you too , Stephen , ’ she said , tempted to add : But I need more of you . |
| 18 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 19 | That means paying a bit more for a used example , but you retain more of your investment . |
| 20 | I could make a few inspired guesses that the machinery will get , not so much cheaper , although it is getting a bit cheaper , but you 'll get more for the same money — rather like calculators _ they have n't actually got very much cheaper in the last two or three years , but you get more for your fiver . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Urban Hype do it as well as anyone else , but you crave more than the Barney McGrew nonsense of ‘ Trip ( geddit ? ) |
| 23 | ‘ But you want more outlets for KITS and you want them in the best and most expensive locations . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 25 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
| 26 | He had scorned her honour , but she had more than all the rest , Isabel thought bitterly . |
| 27 | But she reckons more people would watch the ailing show if organisers banned foreign singing . |
| 28 | You would never guess it , she is so modest , but she knows more than anyone else in England on how the eighteenth century reader regarded Scandinavia … . |
| 29 | But she wants more than that . |
| 30 | ‘ But she wanted more than that ? ’ |