Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the first year and the most you get out of them is they do n't even bother to come and see you in the corridor do , who went down ? |
| 2 | The sooner they took off , the better , so far as she was concerned . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 4 | The alarm bells will be ringing soon if this goes on and the sooner they get out of this bad patch , the better . |
| 5 | ‘ Come along — the sooner we get on with it the sooner we shall finish . ’ |
| 6 | We have to take tough decisions and the sooner we face up to them the better . ’ |
| 7 | Paradoxically , the more fuel a star starts off with , the sooner it runs out . |
| 8 | The sooner she got back on to the track the better . |
| 9 | The sooner she gets back to the water , the better . |
| 10 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 11 | The sooner I get off this Street and onto the box the better . |
| 12 | ‘ So you said — but that will never happen , Doreen , and the sooner you wake up to that fact , the better it 'll be for yourself . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ In fact the sooner you join up the better . ’ |
| 14 | The sooner you go back to London , the happier Roman will be ! ’ |
| 15 | But the longer we go on , well , who knows ? ’ |
| 16 | The longer we went on , the more decompositions we got . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Every day people see their house as a wasting , dwindling asset , the longer we put off a return of consumer confidence , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The longer she gazed down , through the tendril of tobacco smoke , the more the meeting merged into the older , stronger established patterns and colours of the valley floor until , eyes half-closed , she saw it disappear into the ancient landscape … |
| 19 | The longer he stays around , the greater the chance the buyer will change his mind , and cancel the order . |
| 20 | And the faster I danced and the longer I went on , the more pennies I got . |
| 21 | For me it 's just feel and the longer I stay out on the range , the more damage I do ! |
| 22 | The further we went up the Nile , the more the river seemed to express some awful ambivalence . |
| 23 | Each group becomes more inclusive the further we move up the hierarchy . |
| 24 | But er at the same time the further I go on , the more apprehensive I get about it . |
| 25 | The more light that falls on the eyes , the more the pupils contract to vertical slits ; the less light there is , the more they open up to round , black pools . |
| 26 | But the more we go on with this type of service , this soft praying and quiet singing , and not ringing the bell or catching the Spirit , the more we realize that we ai n't solving the problem . |
| 27 | The more we soak up their way of looking at things , their method of understanding , the more we shall get . |
| 28 | Luke sat still and gave her her head , amazed that the more she warmed up , the faster she went , staggered by the distance she could carry his 190-pound bulk in the burning sun . |
| 29 | The more she saw of Alain 's mother and the more she breathed in the atmosphere of this house , the more she felt outside it all , an intruder who was here to rock the peace of the place , to alter their lives . |
| 30 | The more she picked up about his past , the more she realized how inadequate her vision of the world had been . |