Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 2 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 3 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 4 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 5 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 6 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 7 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 8 | And when it was all over , I had formed a great attachment and respect for my penis . |
| 9 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 10 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 11 | I had talked a great deal to her about my nights in Marcus . |
| 12 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 13 | But then on my travels I met a vampire which had escaped a great war with the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 14 | A dynasty which had ruled a great network of continental territories , larger in geographical extent than those of the Capetian kings of France , could not easily forget that legacy , nor readily adjust to the changed political conditions of the later thirteenth century . |
| 15 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 16 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 17 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 18 | He had taken over her affairs again , picked them up as if he had never been away , and she could do nothing about it unless she began to create a great fuss . |
| 19 | So you did feel a great urge to conceive or bear a child yourself ? |
| 20 | He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community . |
| 21 | And if he thought she had endured a great deal , why had n't he mentioned her nightmare ? |
| 22 | She had done a great deal of hiking in her university years , and using whatever cover nature provided had been the order of the day . |
| 23 | Oh , she knew she had learned a great deal during the last two years ; she also knew that a good part of herself was happy , mostly , she thought , because she had come to like Mrs Aggie and living in her house . |
| 24 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 25 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 26 | He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right . |
| 27 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 28 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 29 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 30 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |