Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often mourn the passing of the treacle barrel because molasses was a good medicine for cattle , but I had no great hopes this time . |
| 2 | I wanted a crew of twenty men — as we may meet pirates or enemy ships — but I had the greatest difficulty finding six . |
| 3 | ‘ But I know a great deal about you . |
| 4 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But I believe the great majority of people get a high quality service from the staff of the Inland Revenue . |
| 6 | erm I found it self-indulgent , I suppose in the sense that perhaps it was too long and the film maker , I think , was reluctant to erm chop some of that material , but I think the great advantage that the film had was that it reached a very wide audience by being shown on BBC South . |
| 7 | ‘ But you had a great life , ’ Benny cried . |
| 8 | ‘ But you have a great talent . ’ |
| 9 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
| 10 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 11 | ‘ But we had a great time ! |
| 12 | tried to call you both saturday nite and a couple of times on sunday — but no answer … the spurs game was just OK — but we had a great time at the newcastle game vs. scousers — great atmosphere — we stood among the newcastle supporters ( north bank ? ) and they made hell each time cole put it behind grobbelar … |
| 13 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 14 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 15 | We are trying to find some kind of intellectual humanisation which will respect market economic principles , but we have a great distaste for the social Darwinism of Milton Friedman . |
| 16 | But we have a greater probability that we shall self-destruct . |
| 17 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 18 | He needed an able team of allies during his rise , but they became the greatest threat to his predominance after the mid-1970s . |
| 19 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 20 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 21 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 22 | He was a loyal member of the Copenhagen school but he displayed a greater flexibility than most in the expression of his understanding . |
| 23 | He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either . |
| 24 | ‘ But he made a great mistake fleeing the country . |
| 25 | He tired late on , but he has a great future . |
| 26 | He does n't find writing ( and he certainly does n't find spelling ) easy , but he has a great need to tell his story . |
| 27 | But he has a great image , a way to get through to people . |
| 28 | But he devoted a great deal of prior thought to the mood which he wished to create . |
| 29 | There was some scepticism about this solution — given that we had altered the recommendations for doctors and dentists — but it says a great deal for the good sense of the nurses that they accepted the plan . |
| 30 | The question was innocent but it brought a great guffaw from the youth and he answered , ‘ Ben Smith , Jones , or Robinson . ’ |