Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 2 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |
| 3 | Moreover , the depreciation debate will be ‘ dusted off ’ after years of shelf-life and revisited in more depth as depreciation becomes the major cost . |
| 4 | It was centred on Athens and felt by more than a third of the population . |
| 5 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 6 | He scrambled over the wall and fell with more haste than skill into the enclosed , sun-warmed garden below . |
| 7 | Benedicta watched in disbelief as Cranston drained his drink in one large gulp and boomed for more , smacking his lips , gently burping and belching . |
| 8 | She neither gave him an answer nor waited for more reaction , but turned swiftly up the stairs and through the kitchen and along the corridor where , without knocking , she burst into Jessie 's room . |
| 9 | He turned north and searched for more openings and found more troops . |
| 10 | Glasgow 's first lightning conductor drank the power of creation and waited for more . |
| 11 | In his 1935 budget speech , Neville Chamberlain , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , commented on the implications of a decreasing birth rate for an imperial power and appealed for more babies . |