Example sentences of "[noun] took a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horseman took a great pride in his horses , as we have seen ; and when he turned out on the highway he was careful to see they were braided up , the brasses highly polished , and the bounces — the ‘ lovely coloured worsted ’ , as one horseman called them — properly displayed . |
| 2 | In the spring of 1926 , Lewis 's own secret career as a poet took a great stride forward as he completed his long narrative poem Dymer . |
| 3 | Neither girl took a great deal of interest in me . |
| 4 | It was a sparse audience and Ivy took a great interest in it . |
| 5 | The Select Committee took a great interest in the issue of FGD retrofitting . |
| 6 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 7 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 8 | The Duke took a great deal of interest in matters culinary , and spent 15 minutes deep in conversation with Gareth , who has not yet revealed what was discussed . |
| 9 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 10 | In addition to composition , Messiaen took a great interest in the younger generation of composers , teaching composition and analysis to Boulez and Jean-Louis Martinet amongst others . |
| 11 | Bill took a great pride in his garden . |
| 12 | The barge took a great roll , and Maurice could hear the hanger with his good suit in it , waiting for the job which never came , sliding from one end of its rail to the other . |
| 13 | Athelstan gestured towards an earthenware jug and watched with delight as Cranston took a great gulp then , his face puce as a plum , went to the door to spit it out . |
| 14 | From the very beginning Popes took a great interest in their development and encouraged them . |
| 15 | As disc records took a greater hold of the market , some cylinder companies turned to discs ; but many of them eschewed paper labels . |
| 16 | Something made her say , ‘ The Fourniers took a great deal of trouble . ’ |
| 17 | In earlier centuries , excessive child-bearing and its short- and long-term consequences took a great toll among young women , but early in the twentieth century a fall in mortality from tuberculosis , somewhat later in maternal mortality , and the diseases particular to women 's reproductive functions , left males more vulnerable than females . |
| 18 | This time the Smiths took a greater part in designing an intervention and deciding what they were to do . |