Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [pron] [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 2 | And the more beer he drank , the less he thought about it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 5 | The more she thought about this , the more uncertain she became . |
| 6 | The more she thought about him , the warmer she felt . |
| 7 | The more she thought about it , the more clearly she saw that she must somehow get a warning to Tristram . |
| 8 | It occurred to her that what Pascoe had said earlier was n't at all coy ; in fact , the more she thought about it , the more carefully judged it seemed to be . |
| 9 | Yet the more she thought about it , the more she was inclined to let him have his way . |
| 10 | For all she knew , he could be a white-slave trader … the more she thought about the possibility , the more distinctly possible it became … |
| 11 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 12 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 13 | The more she thought about it , the more certain she became that there was really only one avenue open to her . |
| 14 | The more she thought about it , the more she realised that , as usual , she had let her actions rush ahead faster than her mind could follow . |
| 15 | The more she thought about the situation she 'd somehow landed in , the more determined she became to get out of it . |
| 16 | The more she thought about it , the more her confidence ebbed away until she was ready to believe that her efforts had turned up nothing of positive help . |
| 17 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 18 | ‘ The more you talked about him with love , the more devastated I felt , ’ he said deeply . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The more he thought about schoolgirls , the more distasteful became the forty-year-old debs that his mother had lined up for him . |
| 21 | The more he thought about it , the more it became clear to him that this was a job for a real professional . |
| 22 | But the more he thought about it , the more ridiculous it all became . |
| 23 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 24 | Indeed , the more he thought about it , the less appetite he found he had for it . |
| 25 | The more he thought about it , the more he felt that the contract he had renegotiated with Virgin had not gone far enough . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The more he thought about it , though , the less pleased he felt . |
| 28 | The more he thought about it , the worse Lucie liked the idea of Gabriel being accompanied by a monk . |
| 29 | It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do . |
| 30 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |