Example sentences of "than she [verb] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 2 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 3 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 4 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 6 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |