Example sentences of "the [adv] [pron] [vb base] at " 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 | Yet the more we look at our surroundings , the more we find that they are in many ways far above the average . |
| 3 | The more we look at the behaviour of insects , birds , mammals , and man , the more we see a continuum of complexity rather than any difference in kind that might separate the intellectual Valhalla of our species from the apparently mindless computations of insects . |
| 4 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , Schatzie , the more I look at you , the more you remind me of a certain Titian . |
| 7 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |