Example sentences of "than she have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
2 | At a conservative estimate they had cost considerably more than she had just paid for her night 's lodging . |
3 | The very sky smelt of frost though a sun bigger than she had ever seen on Mars still shone remote between gold-fringed clouds . |
4 | More diamonds than she had ever seen in her life . |
5 | Maria had been feeling more vulnerable than she had ever done in her life , but now she lost her temper . |
6 | There was a good , steady wage , and a proper job was more than she had ever hoped for when she 'd first noticed the advertisement written in felt-tip in the corner of one of the windows . |
7 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
8 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
9 | This was the death that had reduced Mrs Browning to a grief more overt and terrible than she had ever shown before and all around her there were faces nearly as stricken and voices almost as crazed . |
10 | In fact , as Ivo pulled up at her hotel , she realised that , if anything , Vendelin Gajdusek had learned far more about her that evening than she had ever learned about him ! |
11 | His eyes bore more seriousness than she had ever read in them . |