Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But you had a great life , ’ Benny cried . |
| 3 | ‘ But you have a great talent . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 6 | ‘ But we had a great time ! |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He tired late on , but he has a great future . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But he has a great image , a way to get through to people . |
| 14 | Such an approach is not without its difficulties , but it has a great deal of potential , particularly in relation to inner city areas . |