Example sentences of "made a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman looked up as the waiter made a great show of placing the glass with its golden contents beside her , and nodded his head towards Jay . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the other guests made a great point of saying she would never work with children or animals , ’ Sinitta explains . |
| 3 | He certainly made a great entrance : I played a slow air , a favourite of mine , Cuaist Nam Fir-Cun Og ( The Flight of the Eaglets ) . |
| 4 | The Mexicans crossed the border to sell fruit and vegetables very cheap to the over-fed Americans , though Jane noticed that her overweight hosts made a great ceremony of using tablets instead of sugar in their coffee . |
| 5 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
| 6 | He made a great effect by getting the chorus to sing a proper piano . |
| 7 | We had to change the design of the orchestra 's stage seating so that the cameras could get the proper angles on the players , and the new wooden structure made a great difference to the sound we were able to get in the hall . |
| 8 | In 1987 Graham Gooch joined the company , and together they made a great team , leading to Gooch 's innings of 333 in the Lord 's Test match in 1990 . |
| 9 | As he pushed them open , they made a great scraping noise and Endill had to cover his ears because it was so loud . |
| 10 | Modigliani knew how to adapt himself to his surroundings and made a great impression on the day he came to sketch Bakst . |
| 11 | Swallow made a great point of that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But he made a great mistake fleeing the country . |
| 13 | and before them a knight of great stature upon a white horse with a bloody cross , who bore in one hand a white banner , and in the other a sword which seemed to be of fire , and he made a great mortality among the Moors who were flying . |
| 14 | ‘ We neither blame the Duke nor Mr. Burn , but we think they made a great mistake in accepting their nomination ’ . |
| 15 | When we arrived I was introduced to the medium , Helen , a quite ordinary , sandy-haired woman in her mid-thirties , and the rest of the group , Dora and Leo and Katy and Humphrey , and everyone made a great fuss of me . |
| 16 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 17 | In fact , although the Gaels were dispersed over many lands and made a great contribution in relation to their numbers , the mass of Scottish emigrants were from the lowlands , including Ayrshire . |
| 18 | Although the list of 78 place-names may be far from complete , it shows that men and women from the county made a great contribution to the colonisation of many and varied parts of our planet . |
| 19 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 20 | And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me . |
| 21 | They made a great many improvements , built houses , restored the lakes and park and enlarged the mansion house . |
| 22 | Larry did French without Tears and Conrad made a great show of Kismet . |
| 23 | These crash boats made a great noise , and part of the plan was to fly Anson aircraft overhead as the run was made to the beach , this being timed to a nicety . |
| 24 | When the Japanese counter-attacked on other occasions they made a great hullabaloo , often shouting to each other as they came forward . |
| 25 | Rolle made a great impression on his contemporaries . |
| 26 | She always made a great splashing . |
| 27 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 28 | Thomas Arnold made a great deal out of the distinction between the concept of service and the pursuit of profit . |
| 29 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 30 | They made a great show of prayers but treated people wrongly . |