Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft . |
| 2 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 3 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 4 | I I became a great friend of hers actually , er she looked out of place on the bench . |
| 5 | As Lauda remarked : ‘ He was someone I took a great liking to , the craziest devil I ever came across in F1 . ’ |
| 6 | For Andrew Stavanger himself I developed a great respect . |
| 7 | We were achieving considerable success right up to the moment of the late King 's sudden and unfortunate death in which you show a great deal of interest . ’ |
| 8 | She was reduced to the landlord 's daughter who served at table : it was the sort of anonymous commingling in which she found a great relief . |
| 9 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 10 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 11 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 12 | One is scratching — not the ground ( which they do a great deal ) but of themselves . |
| 13 | It is true that when they use words like " aggression " and - " altruism " ( which they do a great deal ) they make a pretence that they have somehow dissociated these terms from their human behavioural origins — but it is only a pretence . |
| 14 | And Crosby said : ‘ If he looks after himself he has a great chance . |
| 15 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 16 | There are two parts of his life to which he devotes a great deal of space , and to which he returns again and again . |
| 17 | Far more pertinent was the fact that Mendoros thought he could see a gap in a market about which he knew a great deal , and which he reckoned could best be filled from the UK . |
| 18 | Taking his cue from the Sudan Service and rejecting the written examination , Furse 's method of selection was the interview , to which he attached a great mystique . |
| 19 | What Charles said in major speeches which he put a great deal of time and thought into , seldom went farther than the four walls he spoke within . |
| 20 | the fish uses this to detect changes in water pressure , from which it gets a greater appreciation of sound and its position in the water . |
| 21 | Like Brahms 's Haydn Variations ( to which it owes a great deal ) , the work was originally published in two versions , one for full orchestra , the other for two pianos with a different final variation . |
| 22 | One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later . |
| 23 | It was a good goal erm they they played well it was a good move it , we we saw a great run by Lewis to get this corner which was a smashing bit of football . |
| 24 | We we had a great thing tonight at tea did n't we ? |
| 25 | He had made his best friend aboard promise that he would not be buried at sea — something he had a great fear of — but on land . |
| 26 | ‘ When I auditioned for him I made a great impression — or so I was told . |
| 27 | And er to me it presented a great opportunity , I I j I won quite a lot of books . |
| 28 | One such friend with whom he could relax , and to whom he sent a great deal of comic correspondence , was Mary Trevelyan . |
| 29 | I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry . |
| 30 | David added : ‘ Yeah , when we 're on it we have a great laugh like . ’ |