Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the great [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
| 2 | The whole train , attired in the plum-and-spilt-milk livery of the LNWR and Caledonian Railways , had been assembled together by Rick Edmondson , then chairman of Rotherham diesel locomotive manufacturers Thomas Hill , and leased to the Great Scottish & Western Railway Company , under a fiveyear agreement . |
| 3 | And here , ’ he turned and gestured to the great garish sign , ‘ is the tavern of the Holy Lamb of God . |
| 4 | This reaction was first observed and understood by the great Austrian naturalist , Konrad Lorenz . |
| 5 | Winter is the time to lie back and sink into the great British bath . |
| 6 | The chances are you wo n't sleep much though , because Monday is the big market day in Cavaillon and soon after midnight the carts and lorries and vans of the big fruit farmers ' co-operatives , of the market gardeners , of the tomato and garlic and onion growers , will start rattling and roaring and rumbling into the great open market in the place du Clos . |
| 7 | Part of the answer is that the vast majority of service personnel who answer telephones , serve in shops and deal with the great British public are female . |
| 8 | Richard Walter Jenkins Junior was to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor , yet keep the common touch , be courted by Presidents and praised by the greatest Prime Minister of the century . |
| 9 | Mary went downstairs and wandered through the great empty gardens . |
| 10 | I tucked into bacon and eggs and fried bread and pondered on the great philosophical issues of life such as why you never got fried black pudding for breakfast any more . |