Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Della managed to survive the jump and says it was a great experience |
| 2 | action … and Greg Downs says it was a great day … all footballers want to win the cup |
| 3 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 4 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 5 | And it was a you know it was a great happiness and release to shed a million other activities and flying in all directions thinking the acting was n't enough and I was n't enough for acting . |
| 6 | Losing them was a great blow to her . ’ |
| 7 | I also feel it was a great honour being a woman and having achieved it in such a short space of time as I have only been in hairdressing for around six years . |
| 8 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 9 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 10 | For my part I feel it was a great shame that this reminder to us all of a man 's bravery should have disappeared . |
| 11 | Then , she dreamed she was the Great Crocodile in the Moon . |
| 12 | Even the judge thought it was a great idea , Nick , because on a boat Rickie will be far away from temptation . ’ |
| 13 | Robert was singularly underwhelmed by the whole thing , but I thought it was a great idea . |
| 14 | Sleep , who choreographs the show , says : ‘ I thought it was a great idea . |
| 15 | I , I , I thought it was a great pity because I mean it 's er a major thing upsetting |
| 16 | ‘ When I saw Tencel early on and heard the story about it I thought it was a great breakthrough . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it was a great song , one of the best I 'd written , but the rest of the group had their doubts , and looking back I was completely wrong , and made a fool of myself . |
| 18 | I thought it was a great phrase . ’ |
| 19 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 20 | Because I was a really shy teenager , and I thought it was a great place to hide ; where you could talk about things and express these feelings that you had , but you could hide a wee bit too . |
| 21 | He thought it was a great joke . ’ |
| 22 | I thought it was a great speech , it was a prime ministerial speech from the next Prime Minister of our country . |
| 23 | ‘ The photographer thought it was a great prop but wanted David to hold it . |
| 24 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 25 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't get me wrong , I think it 's a tragedy that Glen Canyon Dam was built ; but if I was a farmer in Arizona I 'd probably think it was the greatest thing in the world . ’ |
| 27 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
| 28 | When he was younger he 'd write songs about a laughing gnome , or a song about a laughing policeman , and I think it was a great outlet for David because he could almost blow his character out of all proportion and be able to pretend whatever he wanted to pretend , which is what actors and pop stars do . |
| 29 | I think it was a great relief for him to think that Tony DeFries would deal with things and all he had to do was deal with his artistry . |
| 30 | We gave him the part in the end and I think it was a great boost for him . |