Example sentences of "than she [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 3 | That was more than she 'd done for Dane , she realised , feeling the first faint stirrings of doubt . |
| 4 | Oh Christ , she wanted to be fucked even more than she 'd hungered for the whip . |
| 5 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 6 | This was better than she had hoped for ! |
| 7 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
| 8 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 9 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
| 10 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 11 | This unpalatable circumstance could result in the very real possibility that Cassie would get a lower price for the cottage than she had paid for it , thus resulting in the disastrous situation of owing the Building Society money which she did not possess . |
| 12 | You had changed her mourning into joy , a joy much richer than she had wanted and much dearer and purer than she had looked for . |
| 13 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |