Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , too , had risen from humble origins , from a tenement on New York 's east side , and had built up a great reputation as a reformer . |
| 2 | The forces that had called forth a great preacher like Griffith were passing and he needed to be taken out of the limelight . |
| 3 | He had laid out a great canvas sheet before him , bearing different phials and small bowls . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the daughters , Fiona , who was always known as ‘ the pretty one ’ , had struck up a great friendship with Mama , who had been invited back to Scotland . |
| 5 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |