Example sentences of "[adv] the [det] [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 2 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 3 | I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary . |
| 4 | I put away the few clothes I had brought , together with photos of Mother and Father , and another one — a head and shoulders portrait of Clare , looking happy and unconcerned about her legs . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just the same size I 've always been , Mum . |
| 6 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ she interrupted , ‘ but you seem to be accusing me of exactly the same things I accused you of — or at least had to ask about . |
| 8 | ‘ If I went to manage a team on the continent I would still do exactly the same things I did at QPR . |
| 9 | Erm , right , precisely the same way I learnt the same skill , watching somebody else do it right . |
| 10 | The more work I make there the more reason I research the geography , social history , climate , agriculture , literature , music , painting and individuals associated with it . |