Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | The Select Committee took a great interest in the issue of FGD retrofitting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |