Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a great [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I had a great thing going with … |
2 | ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’ |
3 | Suddenly I have a great urge to tell you about it , knowing that you will understand as you have suffered so terribly yourself . |
4 | I have a great urge to throttle you , but that would prove I 'd inherited your madness and I want no trait of you to show in me , ever . |
5 | ‘ Lovejoy is fun and I have a great time doing it . ’ |
6 | ‘ I have a great deal to do , ’ she said in a dismissively grown-up voice . |
7 | I have a great deal to do . |
8 | I have a great deal to do . ’ |
9 | I have a great deal to say . |
10 | Commodores , members , I have a great announcement to make , there have been no other nominations for President of the Association . |
11 | Christine McCracken , her teacher at St Bartholomew 's school in Haslemere , Surrey , said : ‘ She has a great hunger to communicate and understand . ’ |
12 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
13 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
14 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
15 | You had a great desire to do something . |
16 | ‘ Spencer Grenfell , you have a great deal to answer for , ’ Emily said bitterly . |
17 | ‘ Mr Burns , you have a great deal to answer for , ’ she muttered savagely , hauling the insubstantial scrap of ribbon and lace that claimed to be a nightdress over her head and reaching instead for jeans and a sweatshirt . |
18 | I imagine you have a great deal to keep you awake at night . ’ |
19 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
20 | When you come to detailed programme planning , you need variety and balance and , if you have a great deal to get through and a concentrated message to communicate , you still have to break it up and give people a chance to relax their brains as well as their bodies . |
21 | First , I went round to her pad with my video and we had a great laugh looking at Glenys Kinnock on the verge of tears contemplating the ruin of her husband 's career . |
22 | That means our customers are in a better position to serve their own customers and we have a greater opportunity to increase our share of their business . |
23 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
24 | ‘ We have a great deal to say . |
25 | It seems that if we as adults have the courage to talk openly and honestly to children then we have a great deal to learn from them , given their openness and ability to describe simply matters of life and death with great dignity and inbuilt wisdom . |
26 | It seems to me that , in this respect , we have a great deal to learn from the best American schools . |
27 | However , our oppponents fail to recognise that we have a great amount to learn from those in business who have developed techniques to ensure that large organisations improve their efficiency and deliver their objective more effectively than was the case . |
28 | ‘ We have a great future to secure . |
29 | Not only do they have a greater opportunity to commit their favoured types of crimes , but they have the capacity to influence which of their behaviours will be regarded as corporate crimes in the first place . |
30 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |