Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It was the most feeling I saw in him , apart from when describing some bitter wrangle in the London ad agency which had caused his walk-out and propelled him here . |
2 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
3 | The further we got into basic training the more obsessive I got about it . |
4 | It is certainly one of the ironies for Britain that the more thorough her privatisation programme in the 1980s ( including gas , electricity , air transport and telecommunications ) , the more disadvantaged she became in the argument for pan-European liberalisation of trade . |
5 | The more the UK Vehicle Division restricted output , the more sure it headed for the final chop . ’ |
6 | Jazz was streamlined and beautiful and started to attract the girls ; he was the purest athlete of them all , but the more fluent he became at running and swimming , the more he lost confidence with the riding . |
7 | The producer 's girlfriend kept getting John on to the dance floor , and the more John drank , the more intolerant he became of her . |