Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] great [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIRROR Group Newspapers has joined a great new venture to save readers money . |
| 2 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |
| 3 | She has got a great wee figure . |
| 4 | nine times , nine times out of ten the , the er door the back door or the front door has got a great big pane of glass on top of it . |
| 5 | However , it exists , works well and has benefited a great many users , particularly in education and training applications . |
| 6 | A recently acquired photo-copier has proved a great time-saving boon for note taking . |
| 7 | The turner still has to hold a great juddering chisel in his hands and relies on a good eye and a steady hand to ensure a true cut . |
| 8 | The South African government has declared the great white shark ( carcharodon carcharias ) a protected species , making it illegal to hunt it within 200 miles of the South African coast . |
| 9 | Ray Sunman , the Darlington council officer who helped coordinate the project , said : ‘ I believe our success has influenced a great many projects that came after it . |
| 10 | Mr Ray Sunman , the Darlington council officer who helped co-ordinate the project , said : ‘ I believe our success has influenced a great many projects that came after it . ’ |
| 11 | Milton Keynes mountain biker Jamie Carr has finished the Great Australian Bike Race … he 's ridden from coast to coast … one of only nine men to make it … |
| 12 | Over the years this has killed a great many Canberra aircrew . |
| 13 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 14 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 15 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 16 | The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School . |
| 17 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm afraid it must have upset a great many people at Thrush Green during the past hour . ’ |
| 19 | The white stone palais of the governor of Cochin-China was built in the grandiloquent , neoclassical style favoured by those fervently patriotic Frenchmen who had erected the great public buildings of Paris in the late nineteenth century . |
| 20 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |
| 21 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |
| 22 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 23 | I 've written a great many books for children and some for adults about children ( several from both categories have caused a wave of national commotion ) , broadcasted , televised , been translated into every language including some I had n't realised existed — and what about a bizarre unidentifiable Japanese edition that is put out as one of my books , that for all I know is a codebook for terrorists or drug-runners ! |
| 24 | Pehr Kalm had been a student of Linnaeus , to whom he wrote in March 1747 saying that he had collected a great many seeds from the Essex garden of Richard Warner , a special friend of Miller , who promised an introduction and that he intended ‘ taking up my quarters a little way from Chelsea garden to be always with him ’ . |
| 25 | It had been higher still , probably some three or four days earlier , for it had bitten a great red hole in the shelving bank , like a long wound in the smooth turf , and left the traces of its attack in half-dried puddles of silky clay and a litter of sodden leaves and bushes . |
| 26 | You 've got a great acting career ahead of you if you could only learn a few more tricks . ’ |
| 27 | I 've got a great big rabbit in the freezer . |
| 28 | You 've got a great big bottom ! |
| 29 | Oh god they 've got a great big problem with Helena then |
| 30 | I 've got a oh , I 've got a great big chip machine . |