Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , she dreamed she was the Great Crocodile in the Moon . |
2 | Even the judge thought it was a great idea , Nick , because on a boat Rickie will be far away from temptation . ’ |
3 | Robert was singularly underwhelmed by the whole thing , but I thought it was a great idea . |
4 | Sleep , who choreographs the show , says : ‘ I thought it was a great idea . |
5 | I , I , I thought it was a great pity because I mean it 's er a major thing upsetting |
6 | ‘ When I saw Tencel early on and heard the story about it I thought it was a great breakthrough . |
7 | ‘ I thought it was a great song , one of the best I 'd written , but the rest of the group had their doubts , and looking back I was completely wrong , and made a fool of myself . |
8 | I thought it was a great phrase . ’ |
9 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
10 | Because I was a really shy teenager , and I thought it was a great place to hide ; where you could talk about things and express these feelings that you had , but you could hide a wee bit too . |
11 | He thought it was a great joke . ’ |
12 | I thought it was a great speech , it was a prime ministerial speech from the next Prime Minister of our country . |
13 | ‘ The photographer thought it was a great prop but wanted David to hold it . |
14 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
15 | They all loved it , thought it was the greatest thing they 'd ever drunk . ’ |
16 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
17 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
18 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
19 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |