Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin turned and shouted for more wine . |
| 2 | In his 1935 budget speech , Neville Chamberlain , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , commented on the implications of a decreasing birth rate for an imperial power and appealed for more babies . |
| 3 | Commander George Churchill Coleman , head of Scotland Yard 's anti-terrorist branch , said that the size of the bombs ‘ marked a different dimension in the IRA campaign ’ and warned of more mainland attacks . |
| 4 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |
| 5 | He scrambled over the wall and fell with more haste than skill into the enclosed , sun-warmed garden below . |
| 6 | Tributers , who raised the actual ore , came and went with more freedom . |
| 7 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
| 8 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 9 | He turned north and searched for more openings and found more troops . |
| 10 | Moreover , the depreciation debate will be ‘ dusted off ’ after years of shelf-life and revisited in more depth as depreciation becomes the major cost . |