Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When speaking to him I made no reference to the writer to the Hebrews , to the apostle Paul , to Moses or to the apostle Peter , but rather I concentrated on what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say on the subject . |
| 2 | So I borrowed over what the house was worth . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | So we commit to you the divided land of Yugoslavia , the territories occupied by Israel and the troubled province of Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Obviously it seems to me a good grounding for the younger horses ? |
| 6 | So he gathered around him a group who began to pray regularly in the name of Isa Masih , Jesus the Messiah . |
| 7 | So it seems to me the exercise not only must be done , for the purpose of calculating where we stand in supply terms , but actually has been done by the County Council in respect of Greater York . |
| 8 | But the longer she looked at herself the more she knew that she was going to buy this hat , or perhaps these two hats , and this beautiful , beautiful outfit . |
| 9 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 10 | Thus we have before us a page with a drawing of a large animal ( reported to be a lion ) and a table with a goldfish bowl on it . |
| 11 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 12 | The more I looked into it the more the paintings seemed to go beyond simple unitary ideas of authorship and meaning . |
| 13 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 14 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |
| 17 | The more I think on it the more I see that this cruel sentence may yet be turned to advantage and may be God 's way of effecting what I most desire and have been unable to bring about . |
| 18 | The more I think about it the more I am amazed that men are so sanguine about this food-for-sex thing . |
| 19 | The more I think about it the more I feel sure that this is the way . |
| 20 | The more I think about it the bleaker the home life of Professor and Mrs Maitland begins to seem . |
| 21 | Always she brought with her a rather odd bunch of flowers for her old friend . |
| 22 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 23 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 24 | ‘ Look how much better the Lilliputians do it ’ , is a tempting cry , but the more one looks into it the more one finds that the Lilliputians are n't a fair comparison with us : they have n't got our antiquated industries … our legal system ; and they are less than six inches tall . |
| 25 | We have only done them when we know we have not done them , because there is so much more to them ; and the more we think about them the more they have to say . |
| 26 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 27 | ‘ Now , the more they see of us the less they like us . ’ |
| 28 | They do not like to think that such a brutal murder could be committed by a Scouser , but the more they think about it the more they believe that it was . |
| 29 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 30 | The more he thought of it the more he was inclined to the idea that the murderer lacked any single , clearly defined motive . |