Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 2 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 3 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 4 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |
| 5 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got something , all right , and the sooner I can get rid of it the happier I 'll be . |
| 7 | The more frankly we could discuss with them the better . ’ |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 9 | He was sitting behind the tea tray , with its vast load of silver , reading Horse and Hound — Twomey came in to take the tea tray away , and with it the smaller table which held the dish of scones , the plate of sandwiches ( Gentleman 's Relish ) , the fruit cake and the plain sponge . |
| 10 | The more I put into it the worse it goes . |
| 11 | The faster she got away from him the better , for her sanity if nothing else . |
| 12 | Is n't there an argument which says if you 're trying to protect York and its setting that the further you actually move the development away from it the greater the protection you afford it ? |
| 13 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 14 | We have to take tough decisions and the sooner we face up to them the better . ’ |
| 15 | People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it . |
| 16 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 17 | Shift him when you like but the sooner you get him over to me the better . |
| 18 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 19 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 20 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 21 | At the price it is , the sooner I can find a buyer for it the happier I 'll be . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 24 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 25 | I think the more people you talk about it to about it the better , especially people who are in it , |
| 26 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 27 | The more I think about it the bleaker the home life of Professor and Mrs Maitland begins to seem . |
| 28 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 29 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 30 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |