Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun sg] [prep] her " in BNC.
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1 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
2 | And then , with his face no more than a foot from her own , she saw what was wedged in his mouth . |
3 | But Maud died childless little more than a year after her father , and thus the inheritance was unexpectedly reunited in Gaunt 's hands . |
4 | Little more than a year after her marriage , Ermentrude had given birth to her first child , Judith . |
5 | At the beginning of the war Russia had felt able to commit no more than a quarter of her field army to the southern part of the empire , as she needed the other three-quarters on her western frontier to defuse possible threats from Austria , Prussia and Sweden . |
6 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
7 | The play is nothing more than a succession of her venomous attacks on the sons ’ girls and the sons ' unbelievably feeble attempts to fight back . |
8 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
9 | For so long she 'd held the secrets of her past under lock and key , barely allowing even Kelly much more than a glimpse into her background . |
10 | Her decision to reject an offer of a senior ministerial post in the Home Office will confirm the prejudices of those who regard her unpredictability and wilfulness as more than a match for her flair for promoting ideas . |
11 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
12 | Less than a year after her arrival in Cotherstone , a crisis occurred . |
13 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
14 | She was perfectly calm , perfectly quiet , and had nothing to say , other than a reiteration of her previous statement , to wit , ‘ he could never resist a cherry ’ . |