Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] 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 | 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 | I was down in the workshops and I 've run a great splinter into my thumb . ’ |
| 9 | What about it like this , see , I 've done all those hats , I 've done the , I 've gone a great hat I have |
| 10 | I 've gained a great deal of experience these psst two and a half years and I think I could manage a stud farm quite easily now . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've met a great number of very interesting people , ’ he murmurs . |
| 12 | I 've made a great deal of progress , as you can see . ’ |
| 13 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
| 14 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
| 15 | So , though I had a bad time , well I had a , I 've had a great life since ! |
| 16 | Kylie told the magazine reporter : ‘ I 've had a great family life and have n't had the sort of problems she encountered . |
| 17 | Firstly , I 've had a great season with all my favourite teams ( Manchester United , Rangers and Linfield ) , winning their respective league titles . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had a great time , ’ Ashley said , thanking Vitor when he brought the car to a halt . |
| 19 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got a great idea . |
| 21 | Then after a year in Israel doing research on migrating birds of prey — ‘ I 've got a great story about that , mate . |
| 22 | They really must realise that time and time again being equivocal on defence when you 're on the left of centre means that voters somehow do n't vote for you , and I think they 've had to learn this lesson yet again and I only hope that by the er December elections in West Germany the Social Democratic Party who I 've got a great deal of er sympathy for on most social issues will be firm and clear about a united Germany not being neutral and within NATO . |
| 23 | He created Apollo , which I have conducted a great deal . |
| 24 | As a frequent visitor to Scotland I have formed a great admiration for the Scottish farmer 's skills , particularly in animal husbandry and the attention that he pays to the production of a crop of whose product I am a not infrequent consumer . |
| 25 | ‘ I have lived a great deal in other centuries . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have heard a great deal about Harvard — who has n't ? |
| 27 | Over nearly fifty years , I have developed a great affection for them . |
| 28 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
| 29 | I 'm a Catholic parent and I have seen a great deal of correspondence and adverse publicity in the local and Catholic press about this new Religious Education programme ‘ Here I Am ’ . |
| 30 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |