Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 3 | I think the Court of Bank of Ireland has come up with the greatest riddle since 1782 , when an Act of Parliament established the Bank . |
| 4 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 5 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
| 6 | But for such degenerates as Cade , or these two , Shakespeare can also deprive his prose of rhythm , make it flaccid , shapeless , a difficult mouthful to get out : Caliban 's verse stands out with the greater force , cured as he now is of his delusions : But — so at least the juxtaposition suggests — that is in part the judgement that verse can make over prose . |
| 7 | That day still stands out as the greatest day in my football life . ’ |
| 8 | The amalgamation of kingdoms was itself carried out with the greatest animosity on both sides . |
| 9 | Li Yuan stood with his father at the centre of the viewing circle , looking down at the great globe of Chung Kuo , one hundred and sixty thousand li below . |
| 10 | But these two were n't dressing up for the great outdoors . |
| 11 | Looking up at the great leather bag of water and the funnel to be inserted into her mouth , the murderess had said , ‘ What , all that water for poor little me ? ’ |
| 12 | The train stopped there long enough for me to run along the line and climb up into the great diesel engine driven by Bert Coad from Perth and Hilton Hinchcliff from Kalgoorlie . |
| 13 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 14 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 15 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 16 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you still keep in with the great man Dander ? ’ |
| 18 | It was surely great to be an American going up in the greatest company in the world and in the greatest country in the world . |
| 19 | It consists of four Sundays leading up to the great Feast of Christmas , four weeks of waiting and expectation . |
| 20 | Look up at the Great Tower which was built by the sons of Peter Parler in 1396 : -1406 , with a Renaissance gallery by B. Wohlmut , 1560–2 . |
| 21 | And whichever of our wives takes the workmen their food tomorrow , that one must be walled up in the great gate . " |
| 22 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 23 | erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that . |
| 24 | From Middenheim 's many tall towers it is possible to look out over the Great Forest to the south and the Drakwald to the west , a carpet of treetops stretching in every direction save eastwards , where the rising Middle Mountains burst from the forest floor , tall and jagged , and the colour of thunder clouds . |
| 25 | SELLING OUT ON THE GREAT COMMISSION |
| 26 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 27 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 28 | More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky . |
| 29 | She stepped down through the great door knowing , from long experience of the signs , that she would find a well kept and tended church . |
| 30 | Set out on the Great Package Tour of the Skies . ’ |