Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] take a great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
2 | She said , ‘ I have taken a great risk in coming to see you tonight . ’ |
3 | A matter which has taken a great deal of time was the proposal before ITAC in relation to future arrangements for the Electronic Distribution of the Crown Court List . |
4 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
5 | He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right . |
6 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
7 | However , the Select Committee report is based on clean coal technology , on which we have taken a great deal of evidence from expert witnesses . |
8 | In fact I 've known people to go right in , so it , it , it 's not a simple job , you know , and they do take a great deal of risk with this , and I do , I mean it 's much more serious than I think than the government find , it should really work hard to try , to try to find something else . |
9 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
10 | He had taken a great deal of trouble . |