Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time .
2 He had taken over her affairs again , picked them up as if he had never been away , and she could do nothing about it unless she began to create a great fuss .
3 He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community .
4 And if he thought she had endured a great deal , why had n't he mentioned her nightmare ?
5 She had done a great deal of hiking in her university years , and using whatever cover nature provided had been the order of the day .
6 Oh , she knew she had learned a great deal during the last two years ; she also knew that a good part of herself was happy , mostly , she thought , because she had come to like Mrs Aggie and living in her house .
7 She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women .
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