Example sentences of "she [verb] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first decade of the eighteenth century she made further journeys through some of the southern counties and about 1712 she visited Epsom , Hampton Court , and Windsor . |
| 2 | Then , realising that it did n't take much for this man to get to her , she made sterner efforts to get herself more of one piece and , returning her hand to her lap , she drew out of nowhere , ‘ Not everybody can wear contact lenses , ’ and added for a touch of authenticity , ‘ I ca n't myself . ’ |
| 3 | On Jan. 24 she announced further proposals which envisaged lifting the state 's foreign trade monopoly , full convertibility for the East German Mark by 1992 , the lowering of tax rates , and the introduction of a commercial banking system . |
| 4 | ‘ She has better things to do , as well . ’ |
| 5 | She even pretends that she has higher principles than many of the other characters in the play : |
| 6 | If she has older brothers and sisters , then the idea of sharing will be less of a shock for her , although even in these cases children cling to those things they think of as theirs . |
| 7 | She says younger users often expect the drug to work immediately although its affects can take up to an hour so they take more , which increases the risks . |
| 8 | The daughter fidgeted through her long wild monologues and wished she wore prettier clothes . |
| 9 | Although an initial brain scan showed nothing to suggest she might have epilepsy , she demanded further tests and was finally diagnosed as having temporary lobe epilepsy a condition which plagues many schoolchildren . |
| 10 | Brian Farrell , defending , said the action ‘ set the rot in ’ and as time went on she took larger sums of money , spending it on alcohol , cigarettes , clothing and bills leaving her with nothing tangible to show . |
| 11 | … She sang livelier songs , e.g. from Patience , than my mother ever did . |
| 12 | If she makes an old-fashioned choice and lovingly tends a garden and a bumper crop of children , she rates louder Hosannas than ever before . |
| 13 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 14 | Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion . |
| 15 | 'Appen she had better things to do , eh , George ? ’ |
| 16 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 17 | She had better things to do , a world to conquer and so forth , who did he think he was ? — Foreigners can be dogged . |
| 18 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 19 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 20 | She had better legs than Gabriel , and knew it . |
| 21 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 22 | She runs Greener Gifts Ltd , from her home in Chipping Sodbury , near Bristol and will sell you 36 square feet of woodland for £25 . |