Example sentences of "the [adv] i [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the games I enjoy , the better I become at them , the more do they come to resemble dream ; and the more does sleep-dream seem familiar , comfortable , homely . |
| 2 | The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes , but I know I need to delve deep in order to get to grips with what lies underneath . |
| 3 | The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes . |
| 4 | ‘ Piano Song ’ , for instance , includes lines like ‘ My vulnerability rushes up to me ’ and ‘ The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you ’ , which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He thought for a moment and added : ‘ In fact , the further I get into it , and see all these boats and families aboard , the more I realise that crossing the Atlantic is no feat at all . ’ |
| 8 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 9 | The more I hear of this , the more I reckon there was a battle of wills between them . |
| 10 | I think to its detriment , it has been very white and it has been very historically specific , but the more I hear about what women are doing in Africa and India I think that the visions are very similar even though the words sometimes are different . |
| 11 | ‘ The more I hear about him , the less I like him , ’ she admitted . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | And the more I delve into computers , the more I realise just how negligible my knowledge is , despite reading everything I can about the subject . |
| 14 | You know , " he hissed , " I used to wonder why my father left you to go out and fight against the British , I used to wonder why he sacrificed everything … but the more I learn about you , the more I realize why ! " |
| 15 | I used to have set ideas but the older I get the more I learn from . |
| 16 | I used to have set ideas but the older I get the more I learn from . |
| 17 | The more I work with oak , the more I know why . |
| 18 | Working on an exhibition of this nature inevitably leads to reflection on the artist : ‘ The more I work on Rembrandt , the more fascinated I am and the more remarkable he becomes ’ was Christopher Brown 's assessment , ‘ in range , ambition and the achievement of that ambition he stands so far above his contemporaries ’ . |
| 19 | I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , Schatzie , the more I look at you , the more you remind me of a certain Titian . |
| 21 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |
| 22 | The more I think on it the more I see that this cruel sentence may yet be turned to advantage and may be God 's way of effecting what I most desire and have been unable to bring about . |
| 23 | So she began with praise : — the more I think on it Ellen the more beholden I am to you for how you have cared for Oreste and the more fortunate . |
| 24 | In fact , the more I think about it , few people have any self-control at all ! |
| 25 | The more I think about it the more I am amazed that men are so sanguine about this food-for-sex thing . |
| 26 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 27 | The more I think about these cases , the more difficult I find it to put each into its proper pigeon-hole . |
| 28 | The more I think about it the more I feel sure that this is the way . |
| 29 | The more I think about it , the more I persuade myself that I 've misjudged little Selina . |
| 30 | The more I think about it , the more I believe that it is a political unit in which the minority accept the verdict . |