Example sentences of "the [adv] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the more beer he drank , the less he thought about it . |
| 2 | And the longer he remains on the run , the worse it will become for him . ’ |
| 3 | It felt almost like being in the presence of nuclear waste ; the longer he stayed around her , the more danger he 'd absorb . |
| 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 | The fact that she had mentioned Nigger defused his excitement somewhat , but the more he heard about her , the more he ached to see her . |
| 6 | The more he required her to talk about herself the more he longed for her to ask him about himself . |
| 7 | The more he looked at her , the more he knew he had seen her before . |
| 8 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 9 | The more he thought about it , the more it became clear to him that this was a job for a real professional . |
| 10 | But the more he thought about it , the more ridiculous it all became . |
| 11 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 12 | Indeed , the more he thought about it , the less appetite he found he had for it . |
| 13 | The more he thought about it , the more he felt that the contract he had renegotiated with Virgin had not gone far enough . |
| 14 | It was all horribly sordid , but the more he thought about it , the more he became certain that , far from being a disaster , leaving the Highways Department was in fact a real step forward . |
| 15 | The more he thought about it , though , the less pleased he felt . |
| 16 | The more he thought about it , the worse Lucie liked the idea of Gabriel being accompanied by a monk . |
| 17 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 18 | Charles detected a tendency for his teeth to chatter and grew indignant the more he thought of this flagrant breach of the conventions . |
| 19 | The more he thought of it the more he was inclined to the idea that the murderer lacked any single , clearly defined motive . |
| 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 note got shorter and shorter the more he worked on it . |
| 23 | Although not something he had thought of himself , the adaptation grew in importance to him , the more he worked on it . |
| 24 | The closer she moves towards death , the more he comes to passionate life . |
| 25 | Luck is a rare commodity but the harder a manager works the more he has of it . |
| 26 | She would verbally attack her husband but the more she shouted the more he withdrew from confrontation . |
| 27 | And the older Richard got , the greater the adolescent turbulence , the fiercer the rebellion , the more he clashed with Elfed and the more he provoked Cis 's displays of loyalty . |
| 28 | The harder he worked at it , the less success he seemed to be having ; his pain and frustration were combining to make him angry , and he flung the bottle down onto the bed . |
| 29 | The more he enjoyed teaching , and the more Mr Malik 's school seemed to prosper , the worse he felt about his original act of deception . |
| 30 | The more the man talked , the higher he rose in Jonadab 's estimation . |