Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they do , he 's probably so busy making tea , answering their demands for more sugar , and looking for his favourite mug in the debris that he ca n't concentrate on his red boxes . |
| 2 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 3 | How many had come into this squat or that , asking , " Any of your soup left , Alice ? " and then sat breaking bread into it , handing back their plates for more . |
| 4 | All ages are interested in the sport and some men have even left their wives for more time to fish ! |
| 5 | He was responding to an observation made by planning chief , Mr Ross Chisholm , who said parked buses often ran their engines for more than the permitted two minutes . |
| 6 | When , thanks in large part to world events , ITN 's chiefs were forced to turn to their backers for more cash , there was heavy resistance . |