Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | And when it was all over , I had formed a great attachment and respect for my penis . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had talked a great deal to her about my nights in Marcus . |
| 8 | But then on my travels I met a vampire which had escaped a great war with the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And if he thought she had endured a great deal , why had n't he mentioned her nightmare ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was they , shamingly , who had led the great discovery of old Germanic literature , which included the Old English texts Beowulf The Wanderer , The Seafarer and the great rhythmical prose-sermons of Aelfric and Wulfstan . |
| 19 | An Elisabeth Schumann obituary was contributed by Gerald Moore , who had accompanied the great soprano on numerous occasions . |
| 20 | ( You had to watch the Great Killer 's eyes . |
| 21 | He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right . |
| 22 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And they had suffered a great loss when John Crabb , their notable leader , had been captured by the English on his return from his ill-fated venture to the Tay and Perth in support of Mar . |
| 25 | It grieved me to see how they had stripped the great Rhododendron and the lesser Kalmias . ’ |
| 26 | They had drunk a great deal and the night was warm , but on a sudden they were both stone-cold sober . |
| 27 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 28 | During the ride to Pesth they had talked a great deal . |
| 29 | According to him they had brought a great deal of food with them and despite the loss of Crane 's saddlebags and wallet there seemed to be no shortage of provisions . |
| 30 | A year earlier Matisse had show his painting Le Bonheur de Vivre ( Barnes Foundation , Merrion , Penn. ) at the Salon des Indépendants , where it had received a great deal of attention , and during the winter of 1907 Derain was engaged in painting a canvas of bathers ( Museum of Modern Art , New York ) which he intended to show at the Indépendants of 1907 , so that it is possible that the Demoiselles may have been prompted by a spirit of rivalry . |