Example sentences of "the [adv] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you , er , this year was the most I got off my grandma and that as well . |
| 2 | I said no not particularly that little grey Persian , cats in the so I went in there and then six of them , cats and two gerbils oh my God what am I getting into ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The deeper I get into this the more difficult it becomes . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 8 | Alas , although I can read it , the nearest I get to delivering any coherent message is a faded ‘ Share the world ’ T-shirt with tigers on it , and trousers which certainly look recycled . |
| 9 | In fact , my dogs eat the supermarket 's own brand and I seldom change my car ; paying double for my dinner is the nearest I get to it , to being Imelda , or Ivana , but it makes me feel good . |
| 10 | My new fedora and Hamlet cigar accessories , more fitting to a winning manager than my old tartan pom-pom cap and ounce of Old Holborn , made me unrecognisable to most of the supporters and the nearest I received to a compliment came from a director who suggested I ‘ stick a faggot up my backside and clear off ’ . |
| 11 | The nearest I came to fishing was as number three in a racing four on the grubby River Tees , when I joined the Tees Amateur Rowing Club . |
| 12 | He thought for a moment and added : ‘ In fact , the further I get into it , and see all these boats and families aboard , the more I realise that crossing the Atlantic is no feat at all . ’ |
| 13 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 14 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The more I thought about it , the more I looked forward to seeing this little known mountainous region , and I had every intention of penetrating at least as far as the Webi Shebeli river . |
| 19 | The more I thought about her , the nearer I got to beating off about her now . |
| 20 | However , the more I thought about it , the more it seemed that the approximations really ought to hold . |
| 21 | However , the more I thought about it , the more I imagined how nice it would be to have a really fabulous holiday in Andalucía . |
| 22 | The more I thought about it , the shedding of my watch became symbolic , and I rejoiced accordingly . |
| 23 | The more I hear of this , the more I reckon there was a battle of wills between them . |
| 24 | I think to its detriment , it has been very white and it has been very historically specific , but the more I hear about what women are doing in Africa and India I think that the visions are very similar even though the words sometimes are different . |
| 25 | ‘ The more I hear about him , the less I like him , ’ she admitted . |
| 26 | Larry Finlay said that he had changed his mind recently on the subject : ‘ the more I speak to booksellers , the more I hear that catalogues are used ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The more I saw of … the doings of an official generation slightly older than my own ’ , he writes , ‘ the more it was borne in upon me that the genuine image of the diplomatic process is hardly to be recaptured in historical narrative unless the lens through which it is viewed is a sharp one and the human texture of which it consists becomes visible in considerable detail . ’ |
| 29 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 30 | With Hugo , I was quite definitely the performance : Stef , the more I looked at her , obviously a mere rehearsal . |