Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it never seemed right ; she would kiss him , for not very long , at the end of each meeting , and he could hold her , feel his arms around her narrow back , his body briefly against hers , but he could feel her tense if his hands went lower than the small of her back , and when he tried to kiss her more deeply , or hold her tighter , she would break away , shaking her head . |
| 2 | It was better than an analgesic in her blood . |
| 3 | 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 : … |
| 4 | And then , with his face no more than a foot from her own , she saw what was wedged in his mouth . |
| 5 | But Maud died childless little more than a year after her father , and thus the inheritance was unexpectedly reunited in Gaunt 's hands . |
| 6 | Little more than a year after her marriage , Ermentrude had given birth to her first child , Judith . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Less than a year after her arrival in Cotherstone , a crisis occurred . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 18 | In fact , it was far more welcoming than the bed in her flat . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | And if it was true , was any purpose served by revealing it — any purpose other than the advancement of her own career ? |
| 21 | ‘ What could be more distressing than the death of her son ? ’ |