Example sentences of "he have a great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , Mr Rigby says , he has a great admiration for predators but only of the kind that need to be conserved . |
| 2 | He has a great vision of the game , and can play stunning rugby — just as he did in the test against New Zealand when some of his tactical options were simply excellent . |
| 3 | This film proves he has a great range as an actor . ’ |
| 4 | He has a great sense of humour and will keep you all well-amused . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ Ellen said , ‘ I am very fond of my husband , in spite of my western ways , and I know he has a great respect for you , Nerina ; and is thrilled about your publishing contract , and any betrayal of confidence has been totally inadvertent . |
| 6 | Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada — big hacienda or some such thing . |
| 7 | He has a great generosity of spirit and a vast encyclopaedic knowledge that far outstrips the cozy insularity of his contemporaries . ’ |
| 8 | On the other hand , he has a great deal of confidence in Noorda 's intellectual prowess and innate capitalism to deliver for Sun what Sun needs from USL as USL 's ‘ largest customer ’ : low royalties , available source , open interfaces , technological innovation and resolution of any channel conflict with SunSoft . |
| 9 | He has a great deal of land , his fingers in numerous profit-making pies , owns racehorses — and , of course , the added bonus of being extremely attractive to women . |
| 10 | He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement . |
| 11 | In many ways he had a great influence on me . |
| 12 | He had a great capacity for friendship , though his demands upon it were sometimes heavy . |
| 13 | He had a great love of music and when the rehearsal rooms were rented out would join the musicians . |
| 14 | His specialities were country houses , churches and vicarages , and he had a great love for bricks , which he used brilliantly and ingeniously . |
| 15 | he had a great attitude about him . |
| 16 | He might well have written ‘ Thank God I am not a Freudian ’ , even though he had a great concern with preserving psychoanalysis as a coherent method and theoretical approach to human action . |
| 17 | He had a great respect for his rival , but its letters simply cheered him up . |
| 18 | As I talked to him , however , I soon realized that he had a great aura of authority and self-assurance . |
| 19 | A Northumberland collieryman ‘ of a most tender , humane disposition ’ chose his grandson as ‘ a frequent companion ’ on long walks , as well as racing , climbing trees , and teaching him to swim : ‘ he had a great liking for children , and was full of little plans and devices to interest and amuse them . ’ |
| 20 | The grammar school boy did n't have Neville 's sophistication , Greer 's polemic talents , or Widgery 's politics , but he had a grasp of the new generation picking up the paper , and , as he was conclusively to demonstrate in the 1970s , he had a great talent for making money , a loyalty to his friends — and talent for paying bills , eventually . |
| 21 | Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data . |
| 22 | He had a great deal to be grateful for . |
| 23 | He had a great objection to plays and novels and to romances and poems , but reflected that Our Saviour spoke in parables , and that fables might therefore be admitted in moral discussions . |
| 24 | He had a great appreciation of their visual appeal and he started the whole revolution of using photographs on their own merit and not merely to fill up space . ’ |
| 25 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 26 | Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life . |
| 27 | Sydney Smirke said that he had a great regard for Scott , but the profession should resist ‘ the attempts of a certain set of mediaeval dilettanti to force on us their thirteenth-century style ’ . |
| 28 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 29 | He had a great fondness for speeches and oratory . |
| 30 | ‘ He had a great gift for teaching . |