Example sentences of "[prep] it the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got something , all right , and the sooner I can get rid of it the happier I 'll be . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The more I put into it the worse it goes . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the price it is , the sooner I can find a buyer for it the happier I 'll be . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 12 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 13 | I think the more people you talk about it to about it the better , especially people who are in it , |
| 14 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 15 | The more I think about it the bleaker the home life of Professor and Mrs Maitland begins to seem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 18 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |