Example sentences of "[verb] for [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 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He says the company is n't looking for any more investors and should soon start generating cash . |
| 7 | Tivoli is n't looking for any more investors and should soon start generating cash . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | so he 's going for some more tests next week . |
| 10 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to be measured for some more boots , ’ Edward said , ‘ but you look a little shaken so I 'm sure it can wait until another day . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Better if they paid for some more staff . |
| 13 | We were n't asking for any more wages . |
| 14 | The comparison is an unsatisfactory one since there are important differences in the life histories of the two species : male kittiwakes can breed for many more seasons , adult mortality is not so strongly age-dependent and females can fledge up to three young per year ( see Coulson , 1966 , 1968 ; Coulson & Wooller , 1976 ; Wooller & Coulson , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | If you are planning on a family and intending to stay in your present home , then allow for much more storage space than you need now . |
| 16 | She called for much more effort to be made to provide an aesthetic environment where some sense of personal identity and dignity is preserved . |
| 17 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 18 | The Editor had asked for some more films to add to my list to show to your fish . |
| 19 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 20 | I was n't asked for any more information . |
| 21 | In reality , Yusuf was not even present and El Cid was to live for several more years . |
| 22 | Then he thought for several more hours . |
| 23 | The Confederation of British Industry says that the recovery will not come for many more months . |
| 24 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 25 | He continued to expound for several more paragraphs , assessing both the growth of feminism and outlining the songwriter 's own inescapably , hypocritical stance . |
| 26 | It often does not reappear for many more miles . |
| 27 | Not to ask for any more appearance money . |
| 28 | And while the IRA leader said how the weaponry received from Libya in 1986 had been ‘ beyond our wildest dreams ’ , it is very doubtful whether the political conditions for the military campaign can be maintained for many more years . |
| 29 | She had enough work for several more days and then after that , she would need to tramp around the streets seeking new customers . |
| 30 | Mr Coulter , a member of Thomas Street , retired as Captain after four years but remained for several more years as Lieutenant . |