Example sentences of "a great man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , a little thing like that should not be allowed to stand in the way of such a great man , so Mr Pozsgay now spends one hour a week in the gym . |
| 2 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 3 | A house with a great man in it and an old woman and a cat , that runs itself ? ’ |
| 4 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 5 | You are encouraging him , you 're making him feel he 's a great man with a message and it 's do or die . |
| 6 | ‘ Yet Chapman was a great man . |
| 7 | By the sixth day at Racedown , Coleridge had reached a settled opinion of his host : ‘ Wordsworth is a great man , ’ he wrote to John Prior Estlin in Bristol , a compliment which Wordsworth , half a lifetime later , repaid in subtly different terms when he described Coleridge as ‘ the most wonderful man I ever knew ’ . |
| 8 | He was a great man and I never ceased to admire him , either discussing critically the quality of a poem or composition , analysing the contents or production of a programme , dealing with the political aspects of CBC policy from Head Office or just enjoying himself in a piano duet with Arthur Benjamin . |
| 9 | ‘ Success comes to the common man , and even to commonplace ability ; but to triumph over the calamities and terrors of mortal life is the part of a great man only . |
| 10 | He is also a great man . |
| 11 | In this story we see reasons why a great man might marry early or late , and some of the artificiality surrounding royal marriages . |
| 12 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone is a very nice person all the time , if we only adopt the most loving and positive of attitudes towards all our fellow human beings , ’ as a great man once said . |
| 14 | A courtesan was a woman of gifts who attached herself to a great man , and expected to be displayed as a badge of his wealth . |
| 15 | Then , just as suddenly , they seemed to remember that this was a serious occasion , they were on their way to a funeral , the funeral of a great man , the chairman , their founder and benefactor , and they fell silent again . |
| 16 | Greystoke handler Gordon Richards said : ‘ Arthur was a great man who knew his job and loved his horses . ’ |
| 17 | For a great book by a great man , in the original holland-backed boards , collectors do not begrudge £3,000-£4,000 , according to condition . |
| 18 | His parents ' cottage was restored to make it a suitable birthplace for such a great man . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's a great man . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Fash is also a great man to have around in the dressing room . |
| 21 | Roly-poly comedian Bernard Manning said : ‘ Leslie is a great man to work with . |
| 22 | There was always something faintly implausible , on either side of the Atlantic , about confusing a critic with a great man . |
| 23 | He was , genuinely , a great man , a leader , he had so much size . |
| 24 | ‘ The president , who is a great man , and some of the Government , some of whom are not so great , want a figurehead , a new symbol for our people . |
| 25 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 26 | In any branch of government , civil or military , promotion always came easier to a man who could add political interest to ability , and on occasion the active support of a great man could more than compensate for very limited abilities . |
| 27 | Government offices were obtained through the intervention of a great man , a man of influence , and a job-seeker without such connections had virtually no chance of success in his quest . |
| 28 | In contrast , those lucky enough to obtain a place in the East India Company 's own service could anticipate a reasonable career without the necessity of further patronage , even though , without question , a servant of the Company whose career was watched by a great man would rise more rapidly . |
| 29 | In the world of the eighteenth century almost everything went easier with the patronage of a great man , a fact which is as true of non-governmental posts as it is of those in the service of the crown . |
| 30 | It was not impossible for a poor gentleman to rise in the army , even without political connections , but for those lacking the interest of a great man promotion depended upon opportunities to demonstrate outstanding gallantry and leadership qualities . |