Example sentences of "[vb pp] a bigger " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter had expected a bigger and taller man with the harsh glint of money-making in his eyes , rather than this relaxed , almost shambling , figure . |
| 2 | And er b built a bigger shop , a more modern one . |
| 3 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 4 | It 's no longer merely a handful of advocates who wonder why someone with such high-calibre material has n't made a bigger dent in the global public 's consciousness . |
| 5 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 6 | When young supporters chant ‘ We 'll be running round Pompey with our willies hanging out , singing I 've got a bigger one than you ’ , or some other scatological rhyme , slightly changed to fit the time and place , they are doing nothing new . |
| 7 | You 've got a bigger problem than I have , though — you ca n't leave here but I can . |
| 8 | An' you should know that this city 'as got a bigger mouth than any reporter from any newspaper . |
| 9 | Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’ |
| 10 | It 's been said he 's got a bigger investment in bricks and mortar in the Pas de Calais than Hitler had . |
| 11 | If you 've got a bigger surgery which may break into that third week |
| 12 | The cat must have got a bigger shock . |
| 13 | Ours , ours has got a bigger garden . |
| 14 | I wish they 'd got a bigger one . |
| 15 | And it 's got a bigger shed as well . |
| 16 | Miss my mum 's got a bigger one at home and |
| 17 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 18 | He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat . |
| 19 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 20 | These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 . |
| 21 | One problem will undoubtedly be the growing demands of the European Parliament , backed by Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , to be given a bigger say with the Council of Ministers in setting broad Community economic objectives and in holding a future EC central bank to account . |
| 22 | Parents have been given a bigger role than ever before . |
| 23 | Medicine , while still based on plants , became more and more sophisticated as knowledge accumulated , especially with the introduction of printing , which meant that information could be passed on exactly , instead of inaccurately , by hearsay , and thus provided a bigger and bigger base from which to work . |
| 24 | He pointed out that CCG now serve 150,000 sandwiches a year , made to our specification , and following customer research we have just introduced a bigger range of sandwiches . |
| 25 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 26 | There was an inbuilt resistance to the idea that a technical fix which had solved one pollution problem had actually created a bigger one . |
| 27 | So you 've covered a bigger region in the past , not just Stortford . |