Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I find I am learning a great deal . ’ |
| 2 | Though I have been invited to come back to South Africa by friends both black and white , I wonder whether I am making a great mistake . |
| 3 | I 'm having a great time here . |
| 4 | Anyway I 'm having a great time . |
| 5 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 6 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 7 | In the circumstances I was asking a great deal . |
| 8 | I do n't think I was told a great deal about the facts of life . |
| 9 | At that point we had six teens and early twenties at home and I was doing a great deal of relating to young people . |
| 10 | As you use an external filter and regularly vacuum the substrate , you are removing a great deal of the waste material from the system . |
| 11 | You 're having a great time . |
| 12 | ‘ I gather she 's making a great success of the English branch of the business . ’ |
| 13 | Toni Halliday said she 's learned a great deal about women from men , ‘ and some men are able to write about the women we dream of being . ’ |
| 14 | She was feeling a great deal better about everything , but knew better than to say so . |
| 15 | She was having a great time . |
| 16 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 17 | Nobody is pretending that we are having a great time , but it is important to recognise the factors which have affected us in what is a transitional period for the club . |
| 18 | This contrived notion of a rock'n'roll band touring around — we 're doing all that shit and we 're having a great time too . |
| 19 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 20 | We got a little higher on this occasion but again ran into severe icing and again we turned back in order to find less cloud and less icing , on tie third attempt we were getting quite near the Alps and we were collecting a great deal of ice . |
| 21 | And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing . |
| 22 | We were having a great time and feeling very relaxed . |
| 23 | Never feel uncomfortable warning people you encounter halfway up a mountain who are dressed for the beach that they are taking a great risk proceeding without extra clothing and food . |
| 24 | The methodology in Advance with English leads the learners gradually from exercises in which they are given a great deal of guidance , to ones in which there is almost no guidance . |
| 25 | I think they 're doing a great job , just listening , it 's er , it 's the best anyone can do . |
| 26 | Yeah I do n't think they 're doing a great er I do n't think they 're making a great deal of money out of it themselves . |
| 27 | They were running a great risk of being intercepted and possibly destroyed , unless they knew what we are bound to suspect : that the English leadership was incompetent , and perhaps divided . |
| 28 | They were making a great game of it . |
| 29 | She had become increasingly alienated from her mother and they were rowing a great deal . |
| 30 | They were having a great time looking at the animals and listening as we explained which countries they were all from . |