Example sentences of "[det] than she " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he had said , no-one was in a better position to do a photo story like that than she was . |
| 2 | I was wearing dresses that showed more than she ever would dare , before she was born . |
| 3 | She had already more than she wanted to deal with . |
| 4 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 5 | He rolled over and opened his eyes though he did n't look at Dot any more than she looked at him . |
| 6 | It seemed to say that all this inconvenience had ended well and she , Mrs Browning , had after all gained more than she had lost . |
| 7 | She was feeling her loss much more than she revealed ; she was schooled in hiding her emotions . |
| 8 | She must get out ; the Colonel 's lady would be bound to approach her and tell her more than she wished to know . |
| 9 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 10 | Not as much as at home — at Inveraray , Elizabeth thought , but more than she had expected . |
| 11 | We related to her how everything happened ; she exulted and gloried and was now blessing you ( O God ) who are able to do above what we can ask or conceive , because she recognized that with regard to me you have given her so much more than she used to beg for when she wept so pitifully before you . |
| 12 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 13 | And now she knew that Uncle Knacker did n't know any more than she did , and she was on her own because her parents could n't afford expensive lessons or a top-class pony . |
| 14 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |
| 15 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |
| 16 | But it was no more than she should have expected . |
| 17 | The warmth that had come with his laughter faded , and she felt he had tricked her into saying more than she intended . |
| 18 | The time might come when she arranges a small dinner party , produces an ‘ impossible ’ soufflé or a perfect pavlova and surprises herself even more than she surprises her friends . |
| 19 | Further readings are more favourable ; the strange cry and the endless sobbing remain in our minds , and it seems that Alice is weeping for far more than she or her unimaginative protector can understand . |
| 20 | Yet he was her father , and she was aware , in this instant , that she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone on earth except herself ; more than husband , far more than children . |
| 21 | ‘ I suspect that actually she does remember more than she ever lets on . ’ |
| 22 | But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could . |
| 23 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 24 | ‘ More than she knows . ’ |
| 25 | While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures . |
| 26 | At this stage , the child is able to achieve , in consort with a sympathetic adult , far more than she could possibly achieve alone . |
| 27 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 28 | BIG TIME : Lysette 's Hollywood break brought her more than she bargained for |
| 29 | But I 've got a good idea about one thing : that little miss upstairs knows more than she lets on . |
| 30 | He decided that this must be because Julian had hurt her more than she cared to admit . |