Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 2 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 3 | If you put the gravel under the cloth and wipe the car you get a great mark . |
| 4 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 5 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 6 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 7 | Even before the crash I took a great deal of exercise — you have to work at staying in shape . |
| 8 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 9 | Whilst the College was in recess we had a great deal of spare time . |
| 10 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 11 | In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere . |
| 12 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 13 | In July he led a great army against the Scots , but their Fabian tactics and ‘ scorched-earth ’ policy defeated his efforts even to relieve Berwick ; he returned to England ‘ with nothing done worth writing about ’ , as one chronicler put it , and disbanded the major part of his army . |
| 14 | I can promise you , however , that if you walk around for three weeks with a chest pain , fearing a heart attack at the age of 43 , and you are told you have a hiatus hernia you feel a great relief . |
| 15 | Next instant she had a great thrill , for as the van swung into the lane past her she saw that it was full of Brownies , with luggage all around them ! |
| 16 | In those days I slept a great deal , and sometimes I dreamed : not of what had happened but of emptiness and occasionally of chaos when the tenuous mosaic that was life shattered into its constituent parts and whirled away into unknown infinities . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In drama we have a great advantage over other subjects in that non-verbal language and narrative are at the centre of our work . |
| 19 | At every turning point they put a greater distance between each other . |
| 20 | The moment he makes a great catch it surprises you , but then you think : Gee , that 's what he does . ’ |
| 21 | In the abstract it has a great deal of force . |
| 22 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 23 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course we saw a great deal of each other . ’ |
| 25 | I knew the guys in the punk bands because they were the people I spent time with : people like Joe Strummer and Paul Weller I felt a great affection for as men , as well as admiring what they did . ’ |
| 26 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
| 27 | Jack 's Rake is a difficult scramble and at one or two points positively frightening as we climbed the final yards we felt a great sense of achievement . |
| 28 | Every month we feature a great walk and visit an activity centre in your region of the country |
| 29 | In many ways he had a great influence on me . |
| 30 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |