Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hard-hitting editorial , the journal 's editors challenge the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe government 's new Economic Structural Adjustment Programme ( ESAP ) which promised to create more jobs and opportunities for ordinary people . |
| 2 | He promised to send more money home as soon as he got paid , and he wanted her to look after his puppy , which he guessed by now would be a full-grown collie . |
| 3 | He promised to send more police to the townships to restore law and order . |
| 4 | Back in England , BA union officials who tried to get more information about who was on board found computer records of the passenger list had disappeared . |
| 5 | In the 1950s three Swedish players — Gunnar Gren , Gunnar Nordhal and Niels Liedholm , the ‘ Gre-No-Li ’ trio — helped to bring more triumphs . |
| 6 | The US agreed to sell more grain to the relatively grainless USSR . |
| 7 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 8 | The declivities seemed to promise more ease than the heights because of the heavier shade and the caressing sound of the small brooks which ran clear and sparkling across their path . |
| 9 | Several people voiced the suspicion that a frantic battle of the sound systems was taking place as companies vied to attract more customers . |
| 10 | he 'd missed more appointments . |
| 11 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 12 | When you erm look back on it now , do you wish you 'd had more education at all when you were younger ? |
| 13 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 14 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 15 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 16 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 17 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 18 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 19 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 20 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 21 | With every horror — the Poison Feast of 1907 being one of the most infamous — Castle Drachenfels seemed to draw more vileness unto itself . |
| 22 | They 'd found more signs . |
| 23 | I 'd envisioned more movement , excitement — fantasy , even . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He seemed to have more chances in our draw with Spurs than the rest of the season put together , ’ said Big Ron . |
| 25 | They all seemed to have more luggage than when they had started . |
| 26 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |
| 27 | The normal childhood that other people wished on him struck him as mostly plaguing and tawdry ; his own lost norm , a life spent in the company of ribald sopranos and tap-dancers and hard-pressed comedians in fear of the sack , seemed to have more decency and purpose . |
| 28 | It seemed to have more life than the photograph . ’ |
| 29 | And the funny thing was , instead of being resentful of the changes , everybody seemed happier , seemed to have more sense of purpose , more enthusiasm for giving the guests a good time , instead of having one themselves . |
| 30 | Workers had rallied enthusiastically to the Soviet , and soldiers in the capital also seemed to have more faith in it than in the Duma leaders . |