Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 2 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 3 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 4 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 5 | If only she 'd paid more attention on the way down here . |
| 6 | She knew she had drunk more wine than was wise . |
| 7 | She had applied more make-up than usual but with her habitual restraint . |
| 8 | She had expected more censure , more blame , but instead Fen seemed to be taking everything upon himself . |
| 9 | She had had more responsibility that she 'd expected , but she had enjoyed it and welcomed the stability it had brought to her erratic life . |
| 10 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |
| 11 | After all , she had had more practice at manufacturing realities than Daine . |
| 12 | Ruthlessly quashing a ludicrous little niggle of jealousy , Rory frowned , wishing she had paid more attention to the text — she could recall its admiring tone , even if not the actual words . |
| 13 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 14 | She was a tall , blonde girl , smooth-skinned with wide-spaced , rather small eyes of an extraordinary deep blue , who would have been thought beautiful if she had shown more animation . |
| 15 | He says , She 's caused more bother in this house he said than enough . |
| 16 | She 's got more money than you mate ! |
| 17 | Yeah but she 's got more hair than what I got in the front . |