Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 2 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
| 3 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 4 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 5 | My actions may or may not have been right and , as I said in court , I wish with hindsight that I had thought more about the late take-up . |
| 6 | It was then that I decided to learn more about what had happened to the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ by the shores of Loch Tummel , and during my research an amazing possibility dawned . |
| 7 | " It was n't dull , " said Clara , " there is nothing , nothing that I wanted to hear more . |
| 8 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 9 | So , after a time , she began to think — when he was so collectedly friendly — that she had imagined more than had really happened , or had imagined it all . |
| 10 | ‘ You were dismissed ? ’ he questioned , but by then she had belatedly realised that she had said more than enough . |
| 11 | He did not love her , but she would make a remarkable duchess , and the fact that she had inherited more than her share of her papa 's famous shrewdness was a bonus which would assist the Blaines and make their future secure . |
| 12 | And he suspected that she had known more intimate secrets . |
| 13 | One day , though , sitting in the counsellor 's sumptuous study she offered him a cheque instead of cash — and he replied with his customary charm and vigour , that she had to pay more if she paid by cheque . |
| 14 | Twisting the key in the ignition , she wished , belatedly , that she 'd struggled more in the barn , been more scathing … |
| 15 | Had n't she always concentrated all her energies on having a good time , even though she knew deep down that she wanted to do more with her life ? |
| 16 | I just wish that we had done more of it sooner . |
| 17 | Now , because everything we did or said might have had some effect on John , I found it hard to relax about any aspect and always felt that we had to do more , be more efficient , keep up the pressure . |
| 18 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 19 | Analysts suggested that Celli 's announcement was intended to counter the May 11 claim by opposition deputies and AD dissidents that they had collected more than 100 signatures from congressmen in favour of reducing the current term of President Carlos Andres Pérez and that of the legislature by one year ( to four years ) , and also in favour of the use of the referendum as a permanent formula to guarantee the public 's participation in political affairs . |
| 20 | Did I hear someone mention that they had heard more high drama on the Radio Four shipping forecast ? |
| 21 | Then she had found out about the baby and realised the truth — that they had done more than draw comfort from each other as mere friends . |
| 22 | They had to ask each other about one element in the writing that they wanted to know more about , and each writer had to act on this question . |
| 23 | Many practices realised that their marketing had been deficient or that they needed to know more about trends and opportunities . |
| 24 | The bank revealed in September 1992 that it had lost more than twice its capital on behalf of a single client because of two foreign exchange dealers in the London branch who acted like ‘ inexperienced gamblers at the roulette table' , according to chairman Sir Charles Fraser . |
| 25 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 26 | On Jan. 29 Iraq informed the UN that it had destroyed more than 181,000 bombs , missiles and other explosives used by the allies against it during the Gulf war . |
| 27 | And Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown 's popularity actually increased after the revelation that he 'd dipped more than just a toe into the typing pool . |
| 28 | A teenager who thought that he 'd won more than a hundred thousand pounds on a bet has today been told that he 'll get just seven hundred and twenty eight pounds . |
| 29 | Angela , Lady Macleod , who had once been Angela Deverill and whom he had thought that he had loved more than life itself , picked up her parasol , an object as lovely and useless as she was . |
| 30 | Delaney knew that he had to talk more with Nell , and warn the others . |