Example sentences of "she [verb] [art] great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sold a great variety of household goods , brushes of every type , string , rope , reels of cotton , thread , sylko , clothes pegs , dustpans , all sorts of things . |
| 2 | We hear her first on these records in 1914 : just two items — the voice sharply etched — on Pathé , made in the year of her British début , when at London 's Drury Lane under Beecham she created no great impression as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 3 | Germany 's failure to achieve political greatness further encourages the view that she has a great future before her . |
| 4 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
| 5 | She covers the greatest distance at night while they 're all asleep . |
| 6 | ‘ Only that I have an impression that she depends a great deal on the doctor . ’ |
| 7 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
| 8 | As a result , she received a great deal of publicity in newspapers in both the United Kingdom and North America . |
| 9 | She had begged Aurangzeb not to spare Dara , and now that she heard of his end she threw a great party in the Imperial harem . |
| 10 | She showed a great interest in cross-community projects . |
| 11 | However she sees a great deal of hope in Miranda 's situation ; ‘ You can acknowledge that women do let other women down and still be a feminist . |
| 12 | She spent the greater part of her working life trying to understand people 's needs , but the need for a God who would comfort and console and right wrongs — in the next life if not in this — although she might understand it , was something she could not uphold . |
| 13 | On the other hand , her workload is not reduced , as she takes a greater number of smaller prey . |
| 14 | Like the Prince , she takes a great deal of exercise , and frequently leaves the people who escort her on visits around the country struggling to keep up . |
| 15 | ‘ One thing she often came back to was what she called the great divide in all individual lives . |
| 16 | She talked a great deal about T.S . |
| 17 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 18 | She took a great fancy to me , used to buy me presents . |
| 19 | She took a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the pompous old ass upset . |
| 20 | She took a great interest in the Factota scheme , and helped the other two to make out a rough draft of the ‘ handbill ’ that Mr Dare had suggested . |
| 21 | She took a great interest in the kitchen garden too , and calculated with pleasure how many greengages and damsons they would have , how many cherries and pears and strawberries . |
| 22 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 23 | Moreover , she thought a great deal about what she was going to do long before she began working , and it had become possible for her to execute a painting with great precision . |
| 24 | When he was out of sight she crossed the great court to the gatehouse , passed by the open door apparently without a glance , and stood for some minutes in the gateway , looking along the Foregate , before turning back towards the guesthouse . |
| 25 | Being a woman , and coming from the background she did , she knew a great deal about jewellery . |
| 26 | The sea answered her voice , and she saw a great heave of water rise and fling itself over the dunes . |
| 27 | The billhook had sliced into his naked thigh and , turning , she saw the great curve of red blood begin to bubble in the air , saw him slowly sink like a wounded animal , his hands plucking the air . |
| 28 | When there were no sounds of activity she heaved a great sigh of relief and carried on through the living-room towards the front door . |
| 29 | She heaved a great sigh of which she was privately rather proud , thinking that it added a touch of verisimilitude to the sad tale she was spinning . |
| 30 | The slight movements from the recovery cage brought her back to the present and she felt a great sense of relief as she watched the gradual return to consciousness of her patient . |