Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sick flocked to him , and in 1666 he toured England , staying for several months in Lincoln 's Inn Fields , where he treated a great number of sufferers with varying success . |
| 2 | Although I read a great deal , and wrote a great deal , meal-times were still what kept me going . |
| 3 | I decided to study linguistics at M.I.T. Although I learned a great deal , particularly regarding rigorous methods in linguistics , I must confess that the M.I.T. approach to linguistics was too narrow for my taste , and I found the hothouse atmosphere there somewhat uncomfortable . |
| 4 | I suppose yeah but you , you , sometimes you get the hole wears does n't it were the er blade is and all this business so you get a great wadge of wood jamming in there but er , I could do spending a few hundred quid on tools , but what can you do ? |
| 5 | Although they expressed a great liking for the friendly , relaxed atmosphere of their school , they were , nevertheless , critical that it was often too lax . |
| 6 | When his father began talking again , a little irritated frown wrinkled his smooth young brow , but although he made a great play of concentrating fiercely on his reading , he still listened carefully from behind the book to what was being said . |
| 7 | During the reign of Elizabeth I , English seamen such as Drake , Hawkins , Grenville and Raleigh exasperated the Spanish by their expeditions to the Americas , and the Roman Catholic King Philip of Spain also considered Elizabeth I a heretic ; so he despatched a great fleet of galleons , in 1588 , named ‘ The Armada ’ , to sail up the English Channel and transport a Spanish army of invasion from the Netherlands , but the smaller British ships played havoc with the mighty ships during their journey and stormy weather drove the remnants of the Armada around the British Isles , most of the ships being wrecked at various points , including the Atlantic west coast of Ireland . |
| 8 | ( How would my life change if I had a great deal of money ? |
| 9 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 10 | Even if you become a great painter you end up being some rich man 's lackey , sponsored and dabbled with — if you 're lucky . |
| 11 | If you sent a great army against him , he 'd simply cut it down with his sorcery . |
| 12 | If you do a great deal of formal or business entertaining then this sort of dining room is essential . |
| 13 | When you come to detailed programme planning , you need variety and balance and , if you have a great deal to get through and a concentrated message to communicate , you still have to break it up and give people a chance to relax their brains as well as their bodies . |
| 14 | If you want a great game with loads of depth and spooky animation , you 'll never get it all into 64K of memory . |
| 15 | It would be unfortunate if you generalized a great deal and delivered a speech which could have been given at anybody 's wedding , when the bride and groom have fascinating family histories . |
| 16 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 17 | Individuals can only do their jobs well in this context if they know a great deal about everyone else 's jobs and problems . |
| 18 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 19 | Both keep going , even if it means a great effort and both keep their minds active by reading , talking and keeping up with what 's happening in the world . |
| 20 | As an exercise , it was valuable for Glass even if it aroused a great deal of hostility . |
| 21 | Unless you have a great deal of spare height , do not try to fly right round the field . |
| 22 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 23 | Because I know a great deal about you and about your past . |
| 24 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 25 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 26 | We have dealt at some length with these important , if abortive , proposals because they throw a great deal of light on the complexities surrounding the financial control and management of public sector higher education and because they have influenced the subsequent debate concerning the need for some form of central control . |
| 27 | A second possibility is that women talking to other women can leave many things more implicit because they assume a great deal of shared knowledge and cooperation . |
| 28 | Ps. livingstonii — was one of my great loves in my early Mbuna-keeping days , probably because my male was not only a ‘ big softy ’ who caused me no trouble whatsoever , but also because he became a great pet . |
| 29 | It was always good , the more so because he spent a great deal of time trapped indoors by his choice of work , a choice governed by his wish to acquire a useful little nest-egg in a relatively short time . |
| 30 | Remember that a lecturer is usually appointed , not because he can teach , but because he knows a great deal about a particular topic in which he has specialised . |