Example sentences of "the [adv] [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment . |
| 4 | If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments , the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour , the more we love them , for we see how great is their care for their young . |
| 7 | As we are inspired and taught by others , we find that the closer we get to Jesus , the more we share in common with those on the road with us . |
| 8 | So the more you invest in curious methods of murder — your melting ice-dagger , your piano-key trigger — the more you increase the risk that some ingenious author has been there before you . |
| 9 | The more you work in here the healthier you get . ’ |
| 10 | The more the man talked , the higher he rose in Jonadab 's estimation . |
| 11 | The metope is the earliest I know in monumental art , but the splendid little cup with Theseus and Sinis ( fig. 99 ) anticipates it . |