Example sentences of "the less he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The angrier I got , the less he said . |
| 2 | In this welter , such deliberate pressures as the responsible minister may himself exert are included and absorbed ; but the less he purports or believes himself to be determining the outcome , the better . |
| 3 | ‘ Bernie has made F1 viable , but the more powerful a man becomes , the less he listens . |
| 4 | And the more beer he drank , the less he thought about it . |
| 5 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 6 | The more Howard thinks about it , the less he knows where to look or what to do with his hands . |
| 7 | ‘ My good nephew , if you wish to protect Master Shallot , the less he knows the better . ’ |
| 8 | The longer that the right hon. Gentleman speaks , the less he convinces . |
| 9 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |