Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The moment he makes a great catch it surprises you , but then you think : Gee , that 's what he does . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In many ways he had a great influence on me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But for many Chinese people he remained a great leader who , in spite of mistakes later in life , had led China into a new era . |
| 9 | But I remember Philip telling me of a man he admired a great deal , and ‘ t was Guy fitzAlan of Ashby Chase . |
| 10 | For the headmaster he did a great act as the old-style schoolboy of the boys ’ weeklies : ‘ Play up , play up , and play the game ’ , and all that kind of thing . |
| 11 | In this book he presented a great quantity of biblical material organized by subjects as an aid for preachers , using the method of treating a scriptural theme per distinctiones . |