Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] more " in BNC.

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1 I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money .
2 It costs us more to collect it than we actually get in .
3 No it buys him more units .
4 And nodding his head in agreement with that , Mr Wolski took his broom and went off down the path away from the Cages , for it saddened him more and more to see the eagles there .
5 Yet somehow it brought him more explaining to do .
6 Poulantzas ' reply to this criticism is instructive , partly because it tells us more about pertinent effects themselves , but also because it casts light on his general approach .
7 It fascinated him more than anything else .
8 Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers .
9 It took us more than an hour to make our way down those 47 double flights of metal stairs , but we were young and healthy and we enjoyed steins of lager when we finally reached a ground level bar .
10 It gave him more time to devote to music and allowed him to pour his suffocating feelings of negativity into songs .
11 No doubt it gave him more time to enjoy his new pride and joy , a Harley Davidson , classic Hells Angels style motorcycle .
12 It gives us more than enough space and time to do what we want , even given the pressures of frequent assessment . ’
13 It gives us more chance to know that there is no object or person behind it .
14 ‘ It 's good to get new blood as it gives us more spark . ’
15 It gives you more confidence , yeah , what 's it do for you within the company ?
16 er you should be able to display more confidence , I mean that 's what Mike suggested it gives you more confidence to be able to do this .
17 You get wee hooks and you hang them up and they stick there right , and just put your cups on it in a row and it gives you more room on the table .
18 you 'd like to work in the three ? one more just simply because it 's , it gives you more sound impulse
19 Er but as I say if , if we can do it on a personalized basis er personalized geographic basis , it gives it more identity er then what , what you produced certainly i is halfway there to the issues that Steve mentioned earlier on .
20 Mungo held it higher , like an offering , willing it to tell him more .
21 It makes us more fully alive , like the sap in a vine that brings life to the branches .
22 We learn why we are frightened by wasps and it makes us more frightened .
23 It makes us more human — more likeable . ’
24 It makes us more accountable and more focused , but very little will change immediately .
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