Example sentences of "the [adv] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And the longer he remains on the run , the worse it will become for him . ’
2 If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments , the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted .
3 The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became .
4 And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will ’ .
5 Then he would make a pair of horns with his hands and step slowly backwards , and the closer he got to the bedside lamp the bigger the shadow grew , so that finally it outgrew the wall and spread across the ceiling and towered above him , a vast and terrible Demon .
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