Example sentences of "he have a great [noun sg] for " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | He had a great capacity for friendship , though his demands upon it were sometimes heavy . |
| 4 | His specialities were country houses , churches and vicarages , and he had a great love for bricks , which he used brilliantly and ingeniously . |
| 5 | He had a great respect for his rival , but its letters simply cheered him up . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had a great fondness for speeches and oratory . |
| 12 | ‘ He had a great gift for teaching . |