Example sentences of "[verb] her [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Pascoe found her a great deal of help in restoring his rather worn manly pride . |
| 2 | Nissen took a personal interest in Constanze 's crusade on behalf of Mozart 's music , and helped her a great deal . |
| 3 | ‘ Something has happened to cause her a great deal of distress . |
| 4 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 5 | The widow claimed to be particular about who she let to and told her a great deal about the other lodgers ; a musician and a German student , both women , and one man , a writer . |
| 6 | ‘ I owe her a great deal . ’ |
| 7 | " I owe her a great deal . |
| 8 | When she left Sri Lanka in September , 1979 , the comment column in the Ceylon Observer paid her a great tribute . |
| 9 | She regarded them as " mentors " who taught her a great deal about management , and international leadership . |
| 10 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 11 | She was in search of a closer knowledge of her great-uncle , and here were informed friends of his , one of them of long standing , who could surely tell her a great part of what she wanted to know . |
| 12 | Yussuf gave her a great push . |
| 13 | and it gave her a great thrill . |
| 14 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 15 | But Jessica put her arm around her mother and gave her a great hug . |
| 16 | He could also afford to offer her a great deal of money for her share in this house , enough to tempt anyone . |
| 17 | That way , we shall save her a great deal of pain , and she can husband her strength for when she needs to push the baby out . ’ |
| 18 | And she was quite like her old self again for the rest of that day , her mother thought , showing her a great clump of Mont Bretia she had found behind an old stone wall that went up out of sight across the turf . |
| 19 | He smiled a harsh smile and held her eyes as he told her , ‘ You may be able to offer Kirsty a comfortable single-parent home in London , but I can offer her a great deal more than that … ’ |
| 20 | It was as if , in not knowing , he 'd paid her a great compliment . |
| 21 | If she has always been an outgoing person , her grief will probably be expressed in painful episodes of weeping , punctuated by the need to ‘ talk it all out ’ over and over again in great detail to you and to other sympathetic relatives and friends , and you will help her a great deal if you are a patient listener . |