Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When speaking to him I made no reference to the writer to the Hebrews , to the apostle Paul , to Moses or to the apostle Peter , but rather I concentrated on what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say on the subject . |
| 2 | So I borrowed over what the house was worth . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 5 | The more I looked into it the more the paintings seemed to go beyond simple unitary ideas of authorship and meaning . |
| 6 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 7 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , the more I talked to him the more I felt he was not being detached about what he was saying and certainly not professional . ’ |
| 9 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 10 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 11 | The more he thought of it the more he was inclined to the idea that the murderer lacked any single , clearly defined motive . |
| 12 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 13 | Breathlessly she watched for what the moving flags would say next . |