Example sentences of "[adj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he hacked his way free more tentacles looped around him and dragged him into the filth . |
| 2 | It was funny , actually it was on that one , I think he was a little bit erm sexually-orientated more than average this gentleman , cos he 'd got the four poster bed . |
| 3 | Yet by 1985 more than two-thirds of further education colleges , for example , ran special courses for such students . |
| 4 | Greenberg wrote exhibition reviews for The Nation during the 1940s , but his lasting reputation comes from a collection of his articles , including some more thematic pieces for Partisan Review , in a book published in 1961 with the title Art and Culture . |
| 5 | Shortly after the point at which the recital ends , sand was to cover some more helicopters — those sent by President Carter to liberate the American hostages seized in Teheran , where Kapuscinski catches a glimpse not of them but of their place of confinement . |
| 6 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |
| 7 | And on the facing page he breathes some more of Shakespeare 's words : ‘ To return to Gavin 's or not . |
| 8 | We went back in and looked some more . |
| 9 | Would you like some more tea ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 11 | Ca n't you get some more cleaning work or something ? ’ |
| 12 | I was very tempted to gamble the little money I had left in order to try and accumulate some more — tempted also to have a go just for the thrill of it . |
| 13 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 14 | Can I grow some more plants from cuttings ? |
| 15 | This is far better than opening a little airbrake , then some more , and then finally having to use full airbrake for the landing in order to avoid overshooting into the far boundary . |
| 16 | Get some more wine , Dionne , this bottle has n't touched me . ’ |
| 17 | The thunder thumped from some nearer point , the glass vibrated in the window , and Cameron came out of his doze to find Menzies grinning quizzically at him and offering him some more claret . |
| 18 | Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them ! |
| 19 | By the time someone called the police the street boasted red descriptions of every aspect of straight sex along with some more arcane terms such as ‘ fellatio ’ , ‘ cunnilingus ’ and ‘ onanism ’ . |
| 20 | Quick , have some more Oriental plonk . ’ |
| 21 | Harriet sloshes her some more wine . |
| 22 | Harriet comes out of darkness to pour only herself some more . |
| 23 | Most were about 15 minutes late , some more than an hour . |
| 24 | It is interesting to look in some more detail at what some of these factors were . |
| 25 | He threw before the prime minister other names — Coggan , Stopford , and some more . |
| 26 | Go back and work at it some more . |
| 27 | ‘ Sit down , Phoebe , I 'll warm some more milk for you . ’ |
| 28 | Large caves guarded by huge icicles , some fifteen feet tall , sheltered us from the wind as we ate lunch and did some more pondering . |
| 29 | We drank coffee and talked some more . |
| 30 | We drink some more , eat some more . |