Example sentences of "she [vb past] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the death of the sixth Duke in 1858 , the property passed to the Duchess of Sutherland , and she entertained the great Italian patriot , Garibaldi ( he planted a young cedar tree in the garden ) , also Prime Minister Gladstone . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And there , in the middle of the garden , she found the great beast 's supper dish . |
| 6 | Joan looked wholly enchanting as she entered the great hall that evening beside the duchess . |
| 7 | In summer she filled the great blue and white Chinese vases with the deep blue delphiniums grown from buds which Cosmo Gordon Lang originally planted . |
| 8 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
| 9 | As a result , she received a great deal of publicity in newspapers in both the United Kingdom and North America . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She showed a great interest in cross-community projects . |
| 12 | She watched the great elms but saw no movement ; they were quiet , now , though around them birds rose in short flight , then settled again . |
| 13 | She willed the great wooden doors open , and crossed the street . |
| 14 | ‘ One thing she often came back to was what she called the great divide in all individual lives . |
| 15 | She talked a great deal about T.S . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She took a great fancy to me , used to buy me presents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She took a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the pompous old ass upset . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Being a woman , and coming from the background she did , she knew a great deal about jewellery . |
| 25 | The sea answered her voice , and she saw a great heave of water rise and fling itself over the dunes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 | Dimly she saw the Great Tower peak in a cone of white flame ; Adam seemed not to move , but Fand and Liban fell , and Fincara staggered before the sheeting fire . |
| 29 | She heaved a great sigh . |
| 30 | 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 . |