Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue : |
| 2 | Mrs Di Billups was head of Broughton Junior School , South Humberside , which I visited with great pleasure and profit in the summer of 1988 . |
| 3 | I behaved with great dignity and showed none of the resentment I may have felt . |
| 4 | An incident at the fair in 1 920 always caused the family great amusement , although I felt , and still feel , that I acted with great aplomb . |
| 5 | Whilst ignoring his advice myself , I watched with great sadness as he gradually ruined the excellent draughtsmanship and ‘ eye ’ of two of my colleagues . |
| 6 | Whilst ignoring his advice myself , I watched with great sadness as he gradually ruined the excellent draughtsmanship and ‘ eye ’ of two of my colleagues . |
| 7 | I watched with great interest the encounters in August with the All Blacks and the Wallabies . |
| 8 | I listened with great interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) when he recounted all the difficulties that one experiences in that unhappy country , or what is left of it at the moment . |
| 9 | I listened with great attention to the right hon. Gentleman and agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) that it was a most disappointing experience . |
| 10 | I listened with great fascination to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington ( Mr. Dicks ) , thinking that he might take this opportunity to tell the House about his relationship with Professor Bedi , who is now awaiting trial in Brixton prison . |
| 11 | I listened with great care to the lengthy argument put forward by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) . |
| 12 | I listened with great care to discover how his brilliant mind would explain how in a society so apparently lawless there was a brilliant way of reducing the prison population . |
| 13 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 14 | and placed his resignation in my hands , which I accepted with great regret . |
| 15 | I wrote in great haste and under some excitement , from the statements to which I referred , [ Palmerston 's remarks ] and plead this as my excuse if I expressed what I did not really intend . |
| 16 | She read with great attention , few dues escaped her , and it was with a suppressed little scream of excitement and fear that this large , lonely girl would guess the murderer three or four chapters before the end . |
| 17 | It was my unhappy duty to break the news of her son 's death , which she bore with great fortitude . |
| 18 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 19 | The goddess Hathor is thus given an uncharacteristic fierce role , but one which she fulfilled with great zeal . |
| 20 | He gave her chips which she ate with great deliberation . |
| 21 | By the time the medicine was ready the ferryman had materialised and she slumped with great relief on to the cross seat , wishing the crossing was a little longer . |
| 22 | As they walked together , Ben looked at Alice , and she stared with great concentration at the cracks in the pavement . |
| 23 | For example , you went to great lengths to point out that Merit is a cigarette , whereas your magazine is available in many parts of the world where Merit is not . |
| 24 | She died in great pain , ‘ swollen out like a hogshead , leaving behind her the name of great lasciviousness ’ . |
| 25 | Though she was dry-eyed she looked in great pain . |
| 26 | She felt under great pressure . |
| 27 | She spoke with great deliberation . |
| 28 | She performed with great natural charm in a television interview and marvelled at all the stretch-limousines she rode in . |
| 29 | I can make my own way to my digs , ’ she said with great dignity . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's remarkably noble , ’ she said with great sarcasm . |