Example sentences of "the [adv] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those last two miles were the longest I 've ever had to run ! ’ |
| 2 | I work with people on a one-to-one basis and the most I 've ever done is ten sessions with anyone . |
| 3 | My Lords , erm the , the th the most I think perhaps er th th th the Noble Lord , Lor Lord erm referred to my amendments and particularly to Amendment twenty-one which I share with I share certainly share this view with him that that is probably the most important of the ones which is which er I am concerned and to which I put my name and also I do n't think it necessary at this stage to add to my remarks , but I do believe that the that the overwhelming need here is to strengthen the representation of elected erm members on police authorities and to er walk er to tear away from the trend as I see it which is in which is erm the er my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary has written into this Bill of increasing the power of the central Government . |
| 4 | ‘ It was the most I have ever felt nerves , ’ he was later to say . |
| 5 | The most I have played at one time is probably seven hours and it becomes agonising , it tightens your arm up terribly . ’ |
| 6 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 7 | It was this : the less I eat , the more I am getting away with . |
| 8 | ‘ The more I hear about him , the less I like him , ’ she admitted . |
| 9 | The more I worry , the less I sleep . |
| 10 | The less I sleep , the more I read . |
| 11 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
| 12 | Now that 's a bit of an elusive concept really but none the less I think people have er a sort of idea that there is a real them |
| 13 | Is that not why Montaigne could say ‘ the more I frequent and know myselfe … the less I understand myselfe ’ ; why also he discovers that ‘ I have nothing to say entirely , simply , and with soliditie of my selfe without contusion , disorder , blending , mingling … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He takes it out into the so I put it out |
| 16 | Erm the only reason this is an issue that I get a cooking for as Research Process Manager anyway , as Audit Manager I need to have other booking forms , and the only booking forms and additional booking forms I need are all jobs which then got to Mrs which are the so I ask please make amendment to put Audit Manager in and I do n't think we need to specify . |
| 17 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 18 | ‘ The more you point , the better I react . ’ |
| 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 | ‘ I am learning with every race and the more I finish the more I learn and the better I get . |
| 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 | The more I wail and thrash the deeper I go , just like in any swamp or quicksand . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 26 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 27 | Sadly , the only conclusion I 've been able to arrive at since Mr Lamont did his bit , is that the sooner I become a recluse with a string of racehorses the better and that ca n't be right . |
| 28 | The sooner I get off this Street and onto the box the better . |
| 29 | The sooner I get settled , the sooner I get to work . ’ |
| 30 | The sooner I get settled , the sooner I get to work . ’ |