Example sentences of "[verb] for more money " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for more money because of Zadak : I wanted to give him money for rain . |
| 2 | If all this leads the controlling group to scream for more money from the Government , and it will inevitably , I suggest they start using the money they have more sensibly and not waste it on their more extravagant schemes . |
| 3 | But neither can the scheme continue unless Sri Lankans are squeezed for more money . |
| 4 | Dazel is partially funded by some Fortune 500 companies , so development is in progress , but Fabbio is currently out looking for more money . |
| 5 | Two groups of council officials have been in London pleading for more money from the government . |
| 6 | The left-wing response is to press for more money to improve these services , make them more relevant to public needs ; the right-wing response is to privatize further — and if the latter is the response you favour , then you have a wonderful excuse for withholding taxes : ’ Why should I pay for services I do n't use ? ’ |
| 7 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 8 | They 're simply asking for more money to spent with no concerns about the value for money , and surely it was the Conservatives who used to tell us ten or fifteen years ago , that you could n't judge the quality of a service by the amount of money spent on it . |
| 9 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 10 | The hospital is asking for more money to clear the backlog . |
| 11 | Brenda , from Bridlington , says the £800 compensation offered is ‘ derisory ’ and is to fight for more money . |
| 12 | When employees ask for more money it is a comparative exercise . |
| 13 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 14 | As well as fighting for more money , her task was to ensure that ‘ every last pound ’ was spent as effectively as it could be . |
| 15 | Basically , we struck for more money , that 's all . |
| 16 | To be envious , in Axelrod 's terminology , means to strive for more money than the other player , rather than for an absolutely large quantity of the banker 's money . |
| 17 | The decision whether to ask for more money from the Home Office will be made by a special panel who meet on June 25 to discuss the issue , as well as deciding how to fund new security cameras for Warrington and police pay rises . |
| 18 | Professor Sig Prais of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research , a member of the recent Channel 4 Commission on Education , dismissed the authors as ‘ a pressure group appealing for more money ’ . |
| 19 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told them bluntly : ‘ Do n't ask for more money . |
| 20 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 21 | that 's why all these people can now ask for more money . |
| 22 | I find myself working for more money , bettering myself . ’ |