Example sentences of "the [adv] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the more I thought about it , the more it seemed that the approximations really ought to hold . |
| 2 | The further they went into the forest the more it seemed as though the village behind , with Fat Watt and Diggory the King 's man and the priest , represented the enemy , and the miles and miles of trees she had formerly and still a little feared had become a sort of sanctuary , a hiding place . |
| 3 | As one settles down , then , to a quieter pop life , grows a little older , the more it seems that the ‘ correct ’ , the ‘ valid ’ response to music is the appreciative , the considered and discerning response , the thinking cap doffed to the craftsman . |
| 4 | Another important point is that the less time you have in which to do something , the more it costs because you start to run into things like overtime and special delivery payments , rush jobs and so on . |
| 5 | We do know that , when gripped by a golfer , a club 's behaviour is different from the way it behaves when gripped by a clamp as it is in the standard manufacturers ' tests . |