Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , she glared at her half-empty wine glass , realising that in her abstracted mood she 'd drunk far more than she normally allowed herself to drink . |
| 2 | He was the sort of man she 'd seen far too much of when she 'd worked in Milan for International Models . |
| 3 | But with the memory of that wild surge of reaction last night , the devouring way Roman had kissed her , she 'd felt far more sensitive on the subject than necessary . |
| 4 | The porter had stayed almost half an hour — presumably dismantling and re-constructing a perfectly healthy tap — and by the time he had left , it was true , she 'd felt far more relaxed . |
| 5 | In her years in the brothels in Dublin , she had seen far too many girls with their bodies twisted and scarred by the constricting corsets . |
| 6 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 7 | But there was more to it than that : as the only daughter and elder sister to Nathan and Matthew , she had become far more involved in the running of the household , and had been witness to her mother 's frequent pregnancies , miscarriages and confinements . |
| 8 | Sometimes Scarlet had a brief insight into her own attitudes to other people and would realize that she had suffered far more pain on their behalf than was necessary and that no one would ever thank her for it : this made her feel useless and extremely tired . |
| 9 | Loretta decided she had gone far enough , and used the beginning of a farm track to turn the car in . |
| 10 | Above all she wanted to slide far away from Robert Urquhart . |
| 11 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |