Example sentences of "more [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
| 2 | ‘ I see , ’ said Comfort more politely as she stood up again . |
| 3 | Charlie began to kiss her again , this time more gently as he felt the corner of a beer crate jab into his buttocks . |
| 4 | He was hugely amused by it , the more so as we paced up and down in exasperation . |
| 5 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 6 | His was a hectic life , becoming more so as it went on . |
| 7 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 8 | ‘ Why , you must both come with us , ’ said Fräulein Müller to Karelius ' gratification , the more so as he glimpsed the chagrin in Lapointe 's dark face . |
| 9 | We did not therefore send off the telegram he had drafted to Molotov , more especially as he had received from Eden a cold and almost minatory minute just before the Cabinet began . |
| 10 | It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war . |
| 11 | We are all familiar with the fact that the days of our childhood seemed to stretch out , passing more and more quickly as we grew . |
| 12 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |
| 13 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
| 14 | She gripped the pistol more tightly as she reached the wall beneath the window and rose slowly . |
| 15 | He tilted his head down and held the woman 's hand more firmly as they bent into it . |
| 16 | Merrill hugged her jacket around her more closely as they turned into the wind and crossed the road to a small wine bar . |
| 17 | He looked at her more closely as she poured the stale brownish water from the vase down the sink . |
| 18 | And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket . |
| 19 | The tears flowed more freely as I bowed my head and the shame and repentance and the wonderful joy of salvation mixed their ingredients in my soul . |