Example sentences of "than she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 2 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 3 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies . |
| 12 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 13 | She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia . |
| 14 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth . |
| 17 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |