Example sentences of "[v-ing] with more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory told Jessica about his girlfriend Rosie , not a great deal but nothing too disloyal , while she for her part realised after some moments that she was not listening with more than half an ear , but wondering what she should tell him about Parr . |
| 2 | Then he started howling with more laughter . |
| 3 | Depressions are usually caused by tyre tracks and simply need filling with more gravel . |
| 4 | Rory grimaced , remembering with more than a touch of bitterness Candy 's original theory that Adam had tried to spoil her pleasure in singing because on stage she was public property , and he wanted her for himself . |
| 5 | Despite their far longer involvement in the Middle East , the members of the European Community felt inhibited from acting with more resolution than the United States . |
| 6 | ‘ Pardon me if I write vehemently , ’ he apologized disingenuously to Poole in his second letter , adding with more than a hint of picturesque excess : |
| 7 | ‘ Promise , ’ she said , adding with more urgency , ‘ Get that tray along to the study , or there 'll be murder to pay . ’ |
| 8 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 9 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 10 | Even though it is a valuable export , some people want to stop the industry spreading with more and larger pits and waste tips . |
| 11 | RICHARD GUEST ( Romany King ) : ‘ I 've had a bit of a rollicking [ For not riding with more restraint ] . |
| 12 | And if we recognise our true position as skilled labourers performing with more or less ability a given portion of a comp 's duties , it would be utterly absurd for you to propose , or us to expect , equal remuneration with men which I suppose is what you mean by insisting on getting the true value of our labour . |
| 13 | Lay the plaice on a board skinned side up and place a strip of salmon on top , patching with more salmon , if this becomes necessary . |
| 14 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 15 | As a result , the Commission — still with 8,000 officials , who may be well paid but are nevertheless overworked — is dealing with more and more material not only initiated by itself in its legislative function of making proposals , but increasingly at the request of the politicians in the European Council . |
| 16 | The course is divided into two parts , first of all a part that I shall be conducting , dealing with more professional use of the telephone : that 's how you use the telephone , what you say , and how you use it in that way , how you answer the telephone . |
| 17 | Although the business had grown steadily since it was established in 1948 , the owners realised that the market was changing with more consumers buying milk in shops . |
| 18 | It had been an uneventful morning , apart from the trainer behaving with more surliness than usual , and Kelly needed to talk to Annie . |
| 19 | ‘ He was very good , ’ said Bill Waddy , arriving with more drinks for people . |
| 20 | That s past him hopefully , and he s also playing with more confidence … |
| 21 | Middlesbrough , however , had taken the sting out of Leicester and were playing with more confidence and control at this stage . |
| 22 | The satisfaction offered to elderly clients , and to social workers in working with more understanding of the feelings engaged should not be underestimated . |
| 23 | He managed to co-opt the gloomy Georg into circulating with more champagne and everyone averted their eyes as Georg drew near Suzi and refilled her glass . |
| 24 | Typical is Arthur Seton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) , described by the film 's director Karel Reisz , as ‘ a sad person , terribly limited in his sensibilities , narrow in his ambitions and a bloody fool into the bargain ’ who ends up throwing a stone towards the housing estate that is his final destination , declaring with more bravado than honesty , ‘ It wo n't be the last one I 'll throw . ’ |