Example sentences of "[art] more they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social security were paying my bills for me , but the more they paid the more they took off me . |
| 2 | Indeed , the more they reflected on it , the better it appeared , and they quickly passed from affecting forgetfulness to unaffected obduracy . |
| 3 | The more they reflected upon this the more they realised what a massive amount of fixed capital is necessary to eliminate human intelligence and how incredibly intelligent human beings really are . |
| 4 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 5 | If something had to be labelled with this vogue word ‘ citizenship ’ , they no doubt felt that the more they included in their responses , the better they would be thought to be discharging the task of citizenship education . |