Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she were thinner she would still have huge shoulders and great big feet . |
| 2 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 3 | She began to diet , thinking that if she were slimmer , she might feel better about herself . |
| 4 | Malice sharpened the woman 's features , and Polly realised that beneath the artfully applied make-up she was nearer forty than thirty . |
| 5 | She was nearer to tears than laughter . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought she was nearer than that . ’ |
| 7 | She was thinner , abstracted and often seemed unaware of her surroundings . |
| 8 | She was thinner than when Carrie had seen her before and had a transparent look , like a skeleton leaf : all her veins and bones showing . |
| 9 | She was thinner than ever , her fur dirty and mudcaked . |
| 10 | But she was shrewder than Theda had supposed , as she was brought to realise next day . |
| 11 | But , not yet used to leaping up and down the ladder , she was slower and more careful . |
| 12 | She was cleverer than either of them , more elusive , more fragile . |
| 13 | ‘ She was cleverer than all of us , ’ protested my mother . |
| 14 | She was a clever old — Well , let's just say she was cleverer than Maurice thought , though not as clever as she needed to be . |
| 15 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 16 | No one , not even Fenna , could actually stand up against Rachel when she had once got the bit between her teeth : she was better at the game of controlling , containing , winning , than anyone else that Maggie knew . |
| 17 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 18 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 19 | Once she was better , he insisted on starting again , explaining to the young woman that he could never resume a canvas that had been abandoned . |
| 20 | She knew she was good , and it was n't long before she privately concluded that she was better than most of her colleagues — more enthusiastic , more energetic , more productive . |
| 21 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 22 | Sarah had a high opinion of herself , and always stood with her shoulders back and her pretty nose pointed skyward as if she was better than everyone else . |
| 23 | Liza took care of that before I had a chance , but I did n't mind this ; she was better at it than me . |
| 24 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 25 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 26 | Or Bonanza could have figured she was better out of the way . |
| 27 | They ordered chicken breasts in jelly and invalid grapes for Daisy , and grouse in aspic to be sent when she was better . |
| 28 | She was better the following day , however , entirely recovered , it seemed , and when , from the balcony , she caught sight of him skulking , she quickly volunteered to fetch the dish Sabina had prepared from the oven in the piazza . |
| 29 | She could sort anything out when she was better . |
| 30 | Somehow she was afraid that she would discover things she was better not knowing . |