Example sentences of "the [adv] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The less you respond to him the more he tries to get to you — I know I can be a bit intense so it 's really good that he taught me to have fun at work and loosen up . ’ |
| 2 | We 'd better be on our way because the sooner we get to the party and do our duty , then the sooner we can leave . ’ |
| 3 | Liza , distraught at the news , came home on compassionate leave , which she spent in such a state of shock and distress that Harriet began to feel that the sooner she returned to her duties the better . |
| 4 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 5 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Er er bank clerks , this was the top half er shop keepers , erm and and and sort of the further you went to they , the better the people came because they were top half I mean I remember Tom Williams the professional golfer , he lived up there . |
| 11 | Indeed , the more one thinks about them , the more they conform to the conventional pattern of the apprenticeship , with their carefully graduated stages ( apprentice , journeyman , master ) , their strict job demarcations , the emphasis on personal contact and role modelling , the gradual increase in responsibility , the mimicking of the activity of research in seminars , and library and project work . |
| 12 | The more we do to our hair — whether it is blow-drying , heat-styling , perming or colouring — the more likely it is to be porous , dry and dull . |
| 13 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 14 | The more something matters to you , the more you have to work to protect it . |
| 15 | The more one talks to individual cat owners , the greater the variety of cat personalities one finds . |
| 16 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 17 | The more she saw of Felipe , the more she wanted to be near him . |
| 18 | The more time she spent with Miguel Rafaelo , the more she wanted to . |
| 19 | The more you try to , the more corrupt you and your organization are likely to be . |
| 20 | And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will ’ . |
| 21 | It was as if the more extreme and indefensible the moral expressions of Nazism , the more he thrilled to its rhythms of infamy . |
| 22 | The closer she moves towards death , the more he comes to passionate life . |
| 23 | We suggest that the more a person is in love and the less they are able to define what it is in the other that they love , the less free is the conscious choice and the more it relates to the ‘ me in you ’ and the search for psychological wholeness through another . |
| 24 | But the more the revival got under way , the more it responded to Rome 's own ethos , the less accommodating it was in regard to the values of either Protestantism or modern secular , liberal society . |
| 25 | He pushed it away but the more he pushed the more it stuck to him . |
| 26 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 27 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The girl sounded worse the more I listened to her . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |