Example sentences of "she [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At this time of the year she sleeps a great deal , ’ said Simon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She laughs a great deal . |
| 4 | She has a great laugh . |
| 5 | Though her long musical career has seemed very erratic , the overview provided by Greatest Hits 1965–1992 from I Got You Babe and the brilliant Gypsies , Tramps and Thieves right up to The Shoop Shoop Song — proves she has a great voice and a devilish way of picking the best tunes . |
| 6 | ‘ She has a great voice , ’ said one reveller . |
| 7 | Christine McCracken , her teacher at St Bartholomew 's school in Haslemere , Surrey , said : ‘ She has a great hunger to communicate and understand . ’ |
| 8 | She has a great future ahead of her and will undoubtedly improve as here serve and volleys do . |
| 9 | Germany 's failure to achieve political greatness further encourages the view that she has a great future before her . |
| 10 | She was reduced to the landlord 's daughter who served at table : it was the sort of anonymous commingling in which she found a great relief . |
| 11 | she owes a great deal , not only to her natural gifts , but to your tuition . |
| 12 | ‘ Only that I have an impression that she depends a great deal on the doctor . ’ |
| 13 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
| 14 | As a result , she received a great deal of publicity in newspapers in both the United Kingdom and North America . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She showed a great interest in cross-community projects . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She talked a great deal about T.S . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She took a great fancy to me , used to buy me presents . |
| 22 | She took a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the pompous old ass upset . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Being a woman , and coming from the background she did , she knew a great deal about jewellery . |
| 28 | A little round hill , a sort of headland , thrust itself out into the estuary slightly to her right , and beyond it , she thought she saw a great bay , a giant bite out of the smooth slope of grassy shore . |
| 29 | The sea answered her voice , and she saw a great heave of water rise and fling itself over the dunes . |
| 30 | She heaved a great sigh . |