Example sentences of "she had [verb] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 And if he thought she had endured a great deal , why had n't he mentioned her nightmare ?
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ?
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