Example sentences of "[conj] the [adv] she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza , distraught at the news , came home on compassionate leave , which she spent in such a state of shock and distress that Harriet began to feel that the sooner she returned to her duties the better . |
| 2 | As he explains to us his brilliant plot to tell Othello that Desdemona wants Cassio recalled only to satisfy ‘ her body 's lust ’ , we see that the more she strives on behalf of Cassio the more she will damage herself . |
| 3 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 4 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 5 | and she 'll just think about it , and the more she thinks about being depressed the more she 'll get depressed in thinking |
| 6 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 7 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 8 | But the longer she looked at herself the more she knew that she was going to buy this hat , or perhaps these two hats , and this beautiful , beautiful outfit . |
| 9 | But the more she thought of Silas 's kisses the more infuriated she became , and as she recalled her own response her fury turned to bitter humiliation . |
| 10 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |