Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 2 | He relied on me a great deal because he knew I always knew what to do . |
| 3 | Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress . |
| 4 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
| 5 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 6 | Surprisingly she knew it mattered to her a great deal . |
| 7 | There stretched before him a great expanse of mud-trodden grass , gleaming brokenly like water viewed from a height in the summer sun . |