Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has to go for some more treatment , ’ Jack Foley said . |
| 2 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 3 | At my urging , he asked for some more photographs as I was keen on the idea of this spotlessly clean , ruthlessly attractive family in their Nordic pine kitchen . |
| 4 | They passed through several more doors . |
| 5 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 6 | Suffice it to say that the offence can now be committed in many more places than before . |
| 7 | These considerations emphasise the necessity of assessing each department 's staffing needs in much more detail , building up an ideal distribution of staff across the day to meet the expected peaks and troughs of work . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry about this , lady , ’ said the senior fireman as the lady 's lover was driven away to the casualty department , ‘ but at least he has n't come to any more harm this way . ’ |
| 9 | more , ca n't think of any more questions . |
| 10 | I ca n't think of any more questions for the moment |
| 11 | When he could n't think of any more women in government , he added a few authors , actresses , athletes — ‘ Jane Fonda , ’ he muttered , ‘ Chrissie Evert , Dusty Springfield , Adriana Rich ! ’ |
| 12 | We ca n't think of any more songs |
| 13 | Can you think of any more situations that you might have to use an excuse ? |
| 14 | Her boss certainly had an almost irresistibly mischievous manner when he wanted something , and she really could n't think of any more excuses to refuse . |
| 15 | And if anybody thinks of any more diary dates or anything . |
| 16 | This is a major step forward in preserving one of the country 's significant Expansion Scheme airfields , and shows hope for several more sites of aeronautical heritage around the UK . |
| 17 | He says the company is n't looking for any more investors and should soon start generating cash . |
| 18 | Tivoli is n't looking for any more investors and should soon start generating cash . |
| 19 | I figured the last interview I 'd given them , right after the bombing of Flight 103 , had probably been the root cause of why my life had been turned inside out , and I was n't looking for any more trouble . |
| 20 | Does not the Minister agree that it will be a travesty if the same formula is used this year and my constituents are therefore robbed of much more money that is needed for health in the area ? |
| 21 | Eight years earlier in Patrick Hamilton 's widely-acclaimed novel The Midnight Bell , the young Jews of Soho were presented with little more charity except the reservation that they were ‘ brigands rather than crooks , and would probably end , not in jail , but business . ’ |
| 22 | In particular they could do with some more women . |
| 23 | And I could do with some more film . |
| 24 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 25 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 26 | Erm well I feel I like you say , I can do with more more sitting down and doing it myself so it it sinks in . |
| 27 | British attempts to create a free market in energy , especially in the generation and sale of electricity and in the distribution of gas , have not met with much more success . |
| 28 | While this makes it easier for the acoustic-phonetic component to guarantee the inclusion of the target phoneme , the task of the syntax/semantic component is made considerably more difficult since it has to choose from many more word candidates . |
| 29 | ‘ Mildred , I would ask you to refrain from tormenting the first-years with untrue horror stories about the academy , and to make some attempt to think — if that is possible — before you embark upon any more madcap escapades . ’ |
| 30 | This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance . |