Example sentences of "but the [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out to put that right , but the harder I tried , the more I failed . ’ |
| 2 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 3 | But the more I know them , the more I ask myself the question , ‘ What is the purpose ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the more I fished for bream and studied their behaviour the more I began to question the correctness of this theory , for I became aware that sizeable bream are rarely taken near to the margins . |
| 6 | It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was . |
| 7 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 8 | But the more I have thought about those comments , the wiser I think he was . |
| 9 | You know , " he hissed , " I used to wonder why my father left you to go out and fight against the British , I used to wonder why he sacrificed everything … but the more I learn about you , the more I realize why ! " |
| 10 | I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print . |
| 11 | You know I have to admit my knowledge of your country is abysmally small — but the more I see of it , the more I find myself falling in love with it . ’ |
| 12 | But the more I discover , the more I think Mills ’ time in MI6 was probably the reason why he was killed . |