Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke was revelling in the occasion , his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy . |
| 2 | Even quite senior figures in the system just went through the motions of working and fulfilling the crazy plan laid down from a great height without taking local conditions into account . |
| 3 | In front of over 22,000 fans Town got off to a great start , taking the lead after 34 minutes , Duncan Sheerer the scorer . |
| 4 | They passed through a room furnished only by a great oak table and two benches . |
| 5 | The Group wound up with a great relegation battle between Herts and Essex with the scales being tipped by Herts ' strength in the doubles . |
| 6 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 7 | And er a gent used to have er a gentleman going round with a great long stick . |
| 8 | Leave the palm trees and pastel terraces of Ramsey and drive north across the flat plain stretching to the Point of Ayre , where the lighthouse blinks rhythmically beyond a great moorland garden of yellow gorse and purple heather . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a young man , and I am sure that his message got through to a great many people . |
| 10 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 11 | ( the city swirls around like a great beast , |
| 12 | Alexei 's sword blade swept round in a great circle and Rostov turned it off with one of the best parries of his life . |
| 13 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 14 | It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key . |
| 15 | His eldest son came home from a great war in another land … ’ |
| 16 | At St Louis every round-arched opening was made an excuse for a riot of sculptural detail spreading out into a great fan . |
| 17 | Do you think the children of the congregation went away with a great love of the mass ? |