Example sentences of "[coord] more [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 2 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 3 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 4 | ‘ But I was so ready to become a mother , and I 'm happy and more confident than I 've been before . |
| 5 | As you get older you 're supposed to drift into becoming more and more conservative but I find myself getting politically angrier with the passage of time . |
| 6 | As you get older you 're supposed to drift into becoming more and more conservative but I find myself getting politically angrier with the passage of time . |
| 7 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |
| 8 | Sally did n't want another long day on the hill , so wished me well and watched for an hour as my headtorch beam got smaller and more erratic as I moved away across the glacier , interrogating the ice . |
| 9 | In the preface to his great History of Europe , H. A. L. Fisher wrote : " Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot , a rhythm , a predetermined pattern . |
| 10 | ‘ I am more and more Christian as I walk the unchristian ways of Christendom ’ , he wrote , confessing himself ‘ a conscientious objector with a very seared conscience ’ . |
| 11 | It was a good hotel — but more expensive than I had intended : next day I must arrange everything . |