Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core .
2 Acting in conjunction with the king so far as the details of the meeting were concerned , he prepared everything with great care .
3 But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season !
4 The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened .
5 He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy .
6 Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not usually a very popular job , but he does it with great tact and skill , and under his guidance I do believe that our deficit is under control , and that it will be reduced .
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