Example sentences of "she [vb past] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy . |
| 2 | When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot , refilled the milk jug , found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits , and carried the tray back to the terrace . |
| 3 | Number five became so terrified she made more mistakes and prayed to God that the dance would never finish . |
| 4 | She only normally , she said all I ever get normally is Elizabeth on a pass and she got more passes than anything . |
| 5 | She asked more questions than I did . ’ |
| 6 | She found more deaths among sexually mature females than among males , which gave a skew in the latter 's favour . |
| 7 | She received more blood in the ambulance which was given a police escort to the Royal Liverpool Hospital . |
| 8 | She poured more champagne and noticed her hands were shaking . |
| 9 | She poured more wine and took a sip . |
| 10 | He began to sing Lucenzo 's praises , and she paid more attention . |
| 11 | ‘ Personally , I 'd rather she showed more interest in her career . ’ |
| 12 | She hid more success with the identities of various names that had been puzzling her since their last encounter , and most satisfactorily of all , she placed the baby . |
| 13 | Afterwards she spent more time than usual on her appearance , determined that from now on she would stop behaving like some Victorian miss with the vapours . |
| 14 | After the ceremony Agnes and Maxim walked through other halls of the museum where she displayed more knowledge of the aeroplanes and nearly as much of the rockets as Maxim — essentially a personal-weapons infantryman — could offer . |
| 15 | She nodded , dicing with death once again as she swallowed more champagne . |
| 16 | When she required more coffee he leapt up , determined to prove his newfound love and to take the opportunity the task afforded of sitting by her side . |
| 17 | ‘ She was told she needed more experience nursing very sick children . ’ |
| 18 | She needed more time — time to think , time to weigh up the consequences . |
| 19 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 20 | He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company . |
| 21 | She sloshed more wine into her glass . |
| 22 | she brought more moss still and pressed into shape with in the same way . |
| 23 | Lee shook his head as she offered more tea . |
| 24 | She looked more adult and womanly than she really was . |
| 25 | She saw more cows at a glance than she had ever seen before . |
| 26 | In 1991 , she won more matches on clay than any other player , ( 24 ) , and she had the fourth best win/loss record of all players on that surface , ( 24/3 ) , with a percentage success rate of .904 , although it should be noted that , in 7 attempts to date , she has been unable to overcome the dominant hitting of Seles . |
| 27 | When she found her mother was no longer giving her the attention she craved she worked harder to obtain it so she strewed more objects on the floor . |
| 28 | I think she saved more money that week on food . |
| 29 | She lit more candles without a word , and shut the tinderbox with a snap . |
| 30 | She smoked more cigarettes than anybody I was ever to meet , and she cemented my loyalty to her with frequent presents of Airfix model aeroplanes . |