Example sentences of "[verb] for more of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 2 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 3 | His hands swept boldly over her body , pushing aside her flimsy robe to scorch her trembling skin with his touch , and she pressed closer still , aching for more of the devastating fire . |
| 4 | Accepting shareholders are given the option to elect for more of one type to the extent that other accepting shareholders elect for more of the other type . |
| 5 | Will you be looking for more of these longer term contracts ? |
| 6 | ‘ But we proved against Ipswich that we can be as good as anybody on our day and we will be looking for more of the same tomorrow night . ’ |
| 7 | Welcoming the deal , general manager said : ‘ This is our first programme in aircraft seats and we 're looking for more of the same sort of business . |
| 8 | But then I 've got sons , and there 's never seemed much point in going for more of the same ! |
| 9 | These physical effects of withdrawal indicate that the physical body craves for more of the drug and that it is physiologically addicted . |
| 10 | Feminist psychologists , too , tackle working-class women , s under-representation in psychology in a half-hearted way , by calling for more of them . |
| 11 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 12 | But if not , a fifth barrier , both for new and more mature Christians , to asking for more of the Spirit is still fear of man , and fear of the supernatural . |
| 13 | And even though his kiss was far from a lover 's caress , she felt her body respond , acting as though it had broken free from the control of her mind , curving into him , begging for more of his savage domination . |
| 14 | ‘ No matter what your mind might be telling you right now , Aurora , your body is begging for more of my touch . ’ |
| 15 | Her ambitious trek to the distant city had been curtailed by protests from her overworked nervous system , crying for more of whatever the pink cans contained . |
| 16 | The Liberal Democrats are the only party to offer the Bank the carrot of political independence , and might have hoped for more of an endorsement from Threadneedle Street . |
| 17 | The AA asks for more of the money taken in taxation from drivers to be put to work , and for road pricing proposals to be acknowledged as unnecessary , inflationary and , ultimately , inequitable . |
| 18 | Paul McStay helped mastermind the win in Norrkoping — the Scots will pray for more of the same in Berne on Wednesday night |
| 19 | Accepting shareholders are given the option to elect for more of one type to the extent that other accepting shareholders elect for more of the other type . |
| 20 | And it has eased its capital rules to enable market-makers to bid for more of each issue . |
| 21 | Perhaps the British Museum , for all the constraints of public ownership , might try to push for more of the same balance . |
| 22 | So now we 're having to charge for more of our services . |
| 23 | There are plenty of good ideas around , but the worry is that the sheer difficulty of practising in inner cities will overwhelm even the most enthusiastic practitioners and managers and that they will ‘ settle for more of the same … but out of better buildings . ’ |
| 24 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |