Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a great [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly I have a great urge to tell you about it , knowing that you will understand as you have suffered so terribly yourself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I have a great deal to do , ’ she said in a dismissively grown-up voice . |
| 5 | I have a great deal to do . |
| 6 | I have a great deal to do . ’ |
| 7 | I have a great deal to say . |
| 8 | Commodores , members , I have a great announcement to make , there have been no other nominations for President of the Association . |
| 9 | Christine McCracken , her teacher at St Bartholomew 's school in Haslemere , Surrey , said : ‘ She has a great hunger to communicate and understand . ’ |
| 10 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You had a great desire to do something . |
| 14 | ‘ Spencer Grenfell , you have a great deal to answer for , ’ Emily said bitterly . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I imagine you have a great deal to keep you awake at night . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ We have a great deal to say . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It seems to me that , in this respect , we have a great deal to learn from the best American schools . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We have a great future to secure . |
| 25 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |
| 26 | Following the success of Tracy Edwards and her Maiden crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race , women involved in yachting are realising that they have a great chance to attain their sailing goals . |
| 27 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 28 | Now , he says , he has a great desire to write . |
| 29 | Basil , my five-year-old has also been working , as he has a great deal to learn to ensure he will begin his eventing career in March filled with confidence . |
| 30 | He does n't find writing ( and he certainly does n't find spelling ) easy , but he has a great need to tell his story . |