Example sentences of "than she [was/were] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
| 2 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 3 | She could not restrain a flash of pride in her physical fitness ; all the nurses were smaller than she was and , although they were prettier , she felt her dignity and certainty returning . |
| 4 | He filled out all the forms making her older than she was and as uninteresting as possible . |
| 5 | Nutty discovered that the ex-Mrs Nicholson 's clothes were all at least two sizes smaller than she was and mostly covered with sequins or beads of some description . |
| 6 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't like sharing my men , ’ she said , intending to sound far more experienced than she was and succeeding . |
| 8 | The one with his arm round her calling her darling was much older than she was and rather older than the thin other man . |
| 9 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 10 | Willi was about four inches shorter than she was and tended to take bouncy steps . |
| 11 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |