Example sentences of "more [pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more I looked into it the more the paintings seemed to go beyond simple unitary ideas of authorship and meaning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 6 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 7 | The more he thought of it the more he was inclined to the idea that the murderer lacked any single , clearly defined motive . |