Example sentences of "[pers pn] more [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 2 | I use my clients to actually me expand my business which I means I can give you more of my time . |
| 3 | You 're going to give them more of a ri , a more of a resource bank , if you like , right to pu pluck these , er these comments from |
| 4 | and people are more aware of the environment so , so I see no problems on that score whatsoever from members , and er not convince people , but er we er advising them more of what 's going on , and becoming more aware of the problems that there are within the environment . |
| 5 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 6 | Sort of , let's think , er , tell me more about the units themselves . |
| 7 | Do you want to tell me more about that ? |
| 8 | So tell me more about this job in er Manchester . |
| 9 | Oh , do n't tell me more about your bloody I ca n't be bothered to bend down and get a white T-shirt . |
| 10 | If you can help me more on that , er that would I 'm sure assist my judgement . |
| 11 | Lovely , very , very , good indeed , that , that is there now , sounds very good , just , erm , a few little things , would you try to give me more on the fifth finger , the E , the E flat , there , think of a crescendo , to that , want that come out , then , then it will , erm , I 'm almost frightened to put a crescendo in because it was n't the , a big one . |
| 12 | there 's no slow start on the reverse I got it while I was working in Leicestershire so I could n't really take it back it 'll cost me more in petrol |
| 13 | As time went on he found that his own tastes , especially his interest in music , aligned him more with Vaughan than Minton . |
| 14 | Creggan was fascinated by this thought and wanted Kraal to tell him more about this place . |
| 15 | She longed to ask him more about Paul Gray but could not quite frame the question she wanted to ask . |
| 16 | He asked her to tell him more about the house . |
| 17 | His friends say the van , which he kept for two years until he turned professional in 1954 , helped teach him more about comedy than anything else . |
| 18 | Martha , guarding his jeans while he changed , admired him more for deciding against them than if he had bought them . |
| 19 | At £110 Alfonzo is beyond most piggy-banks , so look on him more as an investment than a bedfellow . |
| 20 | Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil . |
| 21 | The gourmet , presented with a difficult choice between two dishes , ponders which will please him more as in other circumstances he might weigh conflicting moral demands , decides which one tempts his palate , chooses to order it without even being conscious of making a second decision , let alone one which requires a logically different kind of support , and afterwards perhaps is disappointed by the dish and regrets having chosen wrongly . |
| 22 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 23 | Edward York makes him more of a Friar Larry , Romeo 's dishevelled contemporary , one of the lads who has unaccountably found himself a Franciscan . |
| 24 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 25 | They were not like the crew quarters , but reminded him more of a hospital , even before he saw what appeared to be an operating theatre . |
| 26 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 27 | Linda says : ‘ What David has gone through makes him more of a person than a lot of other people . |
| 28 | That made him more like Oedipus than Faust . |
| 29 | He calculated he would insult him more by ignoring him . |
| 30 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |