Example sentences of "more [noun] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 2 | You do have to compromise a fair bit and I suppose that I would like more freedom than I 've got . |
| 3 | ‘ Could I have some more tablets before I go to bed ? ’ |
| 4 | Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added . |
| 6 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 7 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 8 | Then after I got half way along the I used to go down to that was another place where there was two more bungalows , you see , and then come out of there and go away to call on some more houses until I got to Miss the finish of the round . |
| 9 | It has gone very sweetly ever since but that was a good deal of production time that was lost that cost me a lost more money than I had anticipated . |
| 10 | By this time , however , my gallery experience had taught me that you need money to start up properly , much more money than I had originally thought . |
| 11 | ‘ I could have gone to European clubs for a lot more money than I earn now , ’ he says . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's got more money than I have , ’ complained Owen after four largeish simultaneous demonstrations had stretched his resources to the utmost . |
| 13 | He went on : ‘ I could get more money if I gave up performing for master classes but I do n't continue working for the money . |
| 14 | I shall have some more money when I 've changed some travellers ’ cheques . ’ |
| 15 | On this slide I 've kept the text pretty small , because stays on this line , but er , you 've got more text than I 've got there , to explain the purpose of this spreadsheet . |
| 16 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 17 | I 've come to terms with it , it does n't bother whether I 've got it or not , but to be honest I 'd rather have more hair than I do now . |
| 18 | He made a lot of hi-tech guitars and he kept trying to sell me one , but there was something very sterile about them to me ; they had more gadgets than I needed . |
| 19 | Can I make you some more tea before I go ? ’ |
| 20 | It is with more pleasure that I thank all those who have helped my ideas about the Lorenz equations to develop ; they are many , but I must mention particularly Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , Bob Williams and Paul Glendinning . |
| 21 | I affected more fear than I felt . |
| 22 | By providing patients and their owners with organised puppy parties , I can save more lives than I will with drugs or scalpel . |
| 23 | She was now a corporal , much thinner and wearing a lot more make-up than I remembered . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , it 's more help that I need , really … |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose we must have had more help than I remember , ’ he said after a while . |
| 26 | I 've got more work since I 've been open about my sexuality than before . |
| 27 | ‘ My involvement , entailing more work than I had expected , pulled me out of the isolation of deafness , ’ says Jack . |
| 28 | bit more thickness than I hoped , er but if it 's sat on top of there and on top of what 's on . |
| 29 | Some anglers add depth to their rigs to take more fish but I have found on the Nene shallowing up can bring better results . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said . |