Example sentences of "he [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made more gossip column copy than our delightful princess . |
| 2 | He expended more energy on others , aware that his flair for living , combined with his money , enabled him to give others a good time . |
| 3 | Though the North scored three tries to nil for their 11th win in their last 12 matches in the competition , it would not be far-fetched to suggest that with Hodgkinson at stand-off — and , overall , he produced more thrust than any other midfield player — the Midlands might well have won . |
| 4 | Then she realized that books were really only a sideline to his stationery business ; he sold more birthday cards than books . |
| 5 | The local ice-cream shop is run by a Norwich man who informed all who would listen that he sold more types of ice-cream than Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , sweet Fabia , you 've no idea what it cost me ! ’ he applied more salve to her wounds . |
| 8 | He announced more investment in rail links from the Channel Tunnel through Kent , a new one point five billion pound east-west train link across London . |
| 9 | In addition , as smith , John Marscal had to repair the lord 's ploughs , and shoe the lord 's horses ; in return he got more land and a cow . |
| 10 | Leary went on : ‘ … he branched out , he got more choice . |
| 11 | Soft and gentle with a quiet sense of humour , he got more money out of his debtors than any of his fellows . |
| 12 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 13 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 14 | May He grant more peace of mind to my dear husband ! ’ |
| 15 | Looking at Doyle , with whom he found more sympathy . |
| 16 | He found more candles , a dozen unused in a box . |
| 17 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 18 | On his journey ‘ through five republics ’ ( Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Uruguay , and Venezuela ) in 1905 he devoted more attention to railways than to any other single development . |
| 19 | As a result , he devoted more attention to the question of policing the countryside than to the creation of local representative institutions . |
| 20 | ‘ He has more experience than the other two , and showed a great deal of improvement last year . |
| 21 | He has more experience than his rivals , more than enough determination and one of the best technicians in the GP paddock . |
| 22 | I am looking forward to seeing Brian Deane , I think he has more strings to his bow than Chapman . |
| 23 | He has more sense than you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He 's not as aggressive as he might be but that could come , and he has more skill and speed than someone like John Fashanu , who plays an intimidating game . |
| 25 | ‘ He has more positions than the Kama Sutra , ’ says a leading black columnist , Bob Herbert . |
| 26 | Each individual in the team considers he has more influence than he would have if the work were organised on a formal ‘ role culture ’ basis . |
| 27 | He is also the favourite and in many ways he has more charisma . |
| 28 | ‘ I mean , he 's from the right kind of background and he has more money that he knows what to do with . |
| 29 | He has more compassion in his little finger than many a priest . |
| 30 | We 've both been married twice , although he has more children than I do and I 'm very jealous of that . |