Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 . |
2 | Sir Steven Brown , the President of the High Court family division said the case involving the children had attracted a great deal of publicity . |
3 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
4 | Several people mentioned that fellow students had learned a great deal about many aspects of disability through having them in the peer group . |
5 | Before the strict selection for black , all the Welsh types had shown a great variety of coat colours and patterns . |