Example sentences of "[art] [adv] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , although I can read it , the nearest I get to delivering any coherent message is a faded ‘ Share the world ’ T-shirt with tigers on it , and trousers which certainly look recycled . |
| 2 | In fact , my dogs eat the supermarket 's own brand and I seldom change my car ; paying double for my dinner is the nearest I get to it , to being Imelda , or Ivana , but it makes me feel good . |
| 3 | My new fedora and Hamlet cigar accessories , more fitting to a winning manager than my old tartan pom-pom cap and ounce of Old Holborn , made me unrecognisable to most of the supporters and the nearest I received to a compliment came from a director who suggested I ‘ stick a faggot up my backside and clear off ’ . |
| 4 | The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club . |
| 5 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 6 | Larry Finlay said that he had changed his mind recently on the subject : ‘ the more I speak to booksellers , the more I hear that catalogues are used ’ . |
| 7 | The girl sounded worse the more I listened to her . |
| 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 | The swathing sweep of the Butt of Lewis lighthouse faded the nearer I got to the Port . |
| 10 | The nearer I got to it , the deeper it looked . |
| 11 | The more I thought about her , the nearer I got to beating off about her now . |
| 12 | The closest I came to anything clinical was watching a nurse shave the chest of a Lebanese businessman , so that she could attach the electrodes required for an ECG — I held the kidney dish into which the used razor was deposited . |
| 13 | The closer I get to completion the more I dread it , he wrote . |