Example sentences of "[subord] she had [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 2 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 3 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 4 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 5 | At this Faye sat up , flinging aside covers , in one movement , like a swimmer surfacing , and she glared at Alice as she had at poor Monica . |
| 6 | Brenda Pridmore , recently appointed Clerical Officer/receptionist at Hoggatt 's Laboratory , pushed the marmalade across the breakfast table and began methodically slicing thin strips from the white of her fried egg , postponing , as she had from early childhood , that cataclysmic moment when she would plunge the fork into the glistening yellow dome . |
| 7 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |