Example sentences of "the [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the most we had at Reg 's when I was up there , is thirty five , forty , forty two . |
| 2 | Are you , er , this year was the most I got off my grandma and that as well . |
| 3 | As Margolis pointed out , in an age of literature inflation , the more papers are written , the less they count for , and the greater the pressure to produce more . |
| 4 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 5 | The more a person is integrated into a close-knit social network , the more time they spend speaking to the same group of people and the less they spend in contact with others who might change their speech . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's old , ’ said Mrs Munro , and I wondered whether she was thinking of herself : that old age bred inanition , that the longer one lived the less one cared for one 's fellows . |
| 7 | The less one makes of oneself , the more one is oneself . |
| 8 | Still , the longer she stood there , with the hardness and warmth of his body against hers , with his breath on her ear , the less she heard of what he was saying . |
| 9 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 10 | No , no , believe me , the less she knows of my activities , the better . |
| 11 | The pattern formed by the line is an indication of the overall merit of the project : the more the line conforms to the VG column and the less it wanders towards the VP column the better the project in terms of the criteria . |
| 12 | The pattern formed by the line is an indication of the overall merit of the project : the more the line conforms to the VG column and the less it wanders towards the VP column the better the project in terms of the criteria . |
| 13 | And the more beer he drank , the less he thought about it . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The less you feel like it , the more you need it . |
| 16 | The less you have of it as , for example , in a short face-to-face contact , the more difficult it is to impress and/or influence . |
| 17 | The less you rely on any drugs , the better for your health in the long run . |
| 18 | I said no not particularly that little grey Persian , cats in the so I went in there and then six of them , cats and two gerbils oh my God what am I getting into ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 25 | The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The sooner we get aboard the better , ’ Lawton said quietly . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | I hate LA with all my heart , the sooner it falls into the ocean due to a major earthquake the better the world will be . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the circumstances , the sooner she started on Suzie 's trail , the better it would be ! |