Example sentences of "i [verb] a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I became a great friend of hers actually , er she looked out of place on the bench . |
| 2 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 3 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
| 4 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
| 5 | She thought yet again : I make a great fuss of nothing , and have not suffered at all . |
| 6 | I got a great response from BSK Limited , Machine Knitting Monthly , Angela Gordon , Marion Nelson and , of course , Ann Kite . |
| 7 | I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside . |
| 8 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's done well for himself , and as things have turned out , I got a great move to a club that are really flying at the moment . |
| 10 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 11 | Basil was a very potent influence on me — I learnt a great deal from him about art and the teaching of art — indeed , more than from any other single person . |
| 12 | It was my first visit and I learnt a great deal from his experience . |
| 13 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 14 | I hold a great enthusiasm for exotic foliage plants and have started to expand my collection . |
| 15 | ( Leonard called him , ‘ a wise man ; a world-study teacher , ’ adding ‘ I received a great deal from my grandfather . ’ ) |
| 16 | I read a great deal of poetry , especially the Romantics , learning long passages by heart , and found some solace there to lift me above the sordid realities of everyday life . |
| 17 | But while Lyall will want Ipswich to take the points off Spurs in tomorrow 's live televised game , he admitted : ‘ I owe a great debt to Spurs , and to Terry in particular . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed , I suppose I owe a great deal to his novel , Caleb Williams , which I have read several times with a daughter 's care . |
| 19 | Indeed , I owe a great deal to Leo Amery for his wisdom , advice and the views that he expressed . |
| 20 | I owe a great deal to my education many years ago , as I come from the background of a Welsh mining village , where a high proportion of us ended up with university degrees — a far higher rate than in many posher , salubrious , suburban areas . |
| 21 | I pass a great variety of them on the way to school and I myself actually live , work and play in some of them . |
| 22 | Because I know a great deal about you and about your past . |
| 23 | ‘ I know a great deal about them . |
| 24 | I know a great deal about the difficulty of getting homoeopathic treatments referred by general practitioners because there is a homoeopathic hospital in my constituency . |
| 25 | Yes Chairman , I am following in Major 's shoes , I do n't reckon I know a great deal about it yet , and I 'm not sure that this erm , er , advisory er , committee is yet actually on the go , but I will go into this . |
| 26 | ‘ But I know a great deal about you . |
| 27 | ‘ I recognize that there can be no future for us together and yet I know a great fondness for the prince — a fondness that time , I suspect , will not lessen . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't mean I could do it myself , not straight away , I just mean I get a great sense of comradeship with these people . |
| 29 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 30 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |