Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for more money because of Zadak : I wanted to give him money for rain . |
| 2 | I asked for more work — anything to keep my mind occupied . |
| 3 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 4 | In fact if you think about it evolution might promote your reproductive success by making you vaguely unhappy most of the time , cos that might make you strive for more success . |
| 5 | Are you looking for more milk ? |
| 6 | He can help you to look for more people . ’ |
| 7 | I see and you arranged for more information to be passed on to Superintendent is that it ? |
| 8 | But she must wear a special cap to protect her head while she waits for more surgery . |
| 9 | The complete programme has yet to be finalised but if you wish for more information please contact the Medau Office Epsom 29056 or send S.A.E. |
| 10 | At the outset we asked for more help from the congregation . |
| 11 | ‘ We hope for more sheep before long , ’ Mrs Noone said . |
| 12 | We looked for more badger clues . |
| 13 | Basically , we struck for more money , that 's all . |
| 14 | The nuzzling continued as his lips found her own , teasing and provoking her to yearn for more depth in the caress , until suddenly he took possession of her mouth in a forceful kiss that went on and on as though it would last for ever . |
| 15 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 16 | They called for more maple syrup and more butter . |
| 17 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 18 | They ask for more stimulus than their children provide and for the opportunity to give expression to their other creative and intellectual drives . |
| 19 | You have to pour the custard on , and the they ask for more custard so you pour more custard on and you could just leave it . |
| 20 | They looked for more drugs , but they found nothing . |
| 21 | Also , says Perera , the government tends to play down the importance of prevention and of synergism ( different chemicals in the environment working together ) , while they call for more epidemiology — or , as many environmentalists put it , ‘ counting the bodies ’ . |
| 22 | Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | They call for more research on the physiological and immunological changes caused by eating disorders , especially bulimia . |
| 24 | The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance . |
| 25 | He begged for more laymen and more laywomen to teach in Sunday Schools . |
| 26 | It calls for more policy agreements between agencies and a clearer statement of them from senior managers . |
| 27 | A study from the British Medical Association says levels of contamination from pesticides are rarely deadly , but it calls for more research into long term effects . |
| 28 | It called for more powers to be transferred to the European Commission and to the European Parliament , which would have the power to veto with a majority vote legislation proposed by the Council of Ministers . |
| 29 | He called for more bobbies on the beat , an end to court delays and reform of prisons . |
| 30 | He called for more street patrols after a 38pc increase in crime was reported , saying women and the elderly were afraid to go out after dark as well as some other men . |