Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a great [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end I had a great admiration for Emil , Oliver and Cathy , who had neatly served and cleared three full courses with the floor swaying beneath their feet and who normally would have taken my few jobs also in their stride . |
| 2 | At the same time , I had a great admiration for Jesus . |
| 3 | I had a great respect for him . |
| 4 | She had a great love for her children and we all loved her intensely . " |
| 5 | ‘ She had a great zest for life.I loved her dearly , ’ says Alfred . |
| 6 | And yet , much as she enjoyed her career and would not want to give it up permanently , she had a great desire for a strong , loving relationship and wanted to have children of her own — something she would never be able to do if her present feelings persisted . |
| 7 | As professional soldiers they had a great reputation for ruthlessness both in battle and in ravaging the countryside . |
| 8 | They had a great passion for women , a great passion for each other , a great passion for music and trains . |
| 9 | He had a great capacity for friendship , though his demands upon it were sometimes heavy . |
| 10 | His specialities were country houses , churches and vicarages , and he had a great love for bricks , which he used brilliantly and ingeniously . |
| 11 | He had a great respect for his rival , but its letters simply cheered him up . |
| 12 | A Northumberland collieryman ‘ of a most tender , humane disposition ’ chose his grandson as ‘ a frequent companion ’ on long walks , as well as racing , climbing trees , and teaching him to swim : ‘ he had a great liking for children , and was full of little plans and devices to interest and amuse them . ’ |
| 13 | The grammar school boy did n't have Neville 's sophistication , Greer 's polemic talents , or Widgery 's politics , but he had a grasp of the new generation picking up the paper , and , as he was conclusively to demonstrate in the 1970s , he had a great talent for making money , a loyalty to his friends — and talent for paying bills , eventually . |
| 14 | Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life . |
| 15 | Sydney Smirke said that he had a great regard for Scott , but the profession should resist ‘ the attempts of a certain set of mediaeval dilettanti to force on us their thirteenth-century style ’ . |
| 16 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 17 | He had a great fondness for speeches and oratory . |
| 18 | ‘ He had a great gift for teaching . |