Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [art] bigger [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘
2 Ours , ours has got a bigger garden .
3 He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat .
4 These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 .
5 I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game .
6 The cat must have got a bigger shock .
7 You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ?
8 Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’
9 Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum .
10 If you 've got a bigger surgery which may break into that third week
11 You 've got a bigger problem than I have , though — you ca n't leave here but I can .
12 So you 've covered a bigger region in the past , not just Stortford .
13 An' you should know that this city 'as got a bigger mouth than any reporter from any newspaper .
14 And it 's got a bigger shed as well .
15 It 's been said he 's got a bigger investment in bricks and mortar in the Pas de Calais than Hitler had .
16 ‘ We will be back in the summer for perhaps a couple of days when we have got the bigger picture and can ask more intelligent questions , ’ he said .
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