Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trunk is powerful enough to uproot trees or tear great limbs from their upper branches . |
| 2 | An effective preventive strategy which challenged these interests would seriously disrupt or impose great costs on capitalist producers . |
| 3 | The Tibetan intuitively spun on his heel , raising his arm as if to throw a stone and bellowing great roars of abuse . |
| 4 | He would not accept their continual bleatings that they just wanted to ‘ be in a band and make great records . ’ |
| 5 | Flettner argued that rotating cylinders on the deck of a ship should replace sails in favourable wind conditions and bring great advantages in handling . |
| 6 | We talked a lot and made great plans for a concert tour but in the end the dates were n't right . |
| 7 | And the Christians defended themselves right well , and every time that they went upon the walls , they sounded trumpets and tambours ; and made great rejoicings , as the Cid had commanded . |
| 8 | He had conferred great material benefits , providing Bibles and building great basilicas such as St John Lateran and St Peter 's at Rome , the church of the Resurrection ( later called the Holy Sepulchre ) at Jerusalem , and that of the Nativity at Bethlehem . |
| 9 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 10 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 11 | This method is becoming increasingly popular and has great benefits in terms of aerobatic flying . |
| 12 | But if I have to choose , then William Golding : he has a tremendous command of the language , is economical , and has great gifts of description . ’ |
| 13 | But once we had to walk all day and climb great trees for just one honey comb . |
| 14 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 15 | He digs his bed up in the stable if he 's too warm and digs great holes in his field . |
| 16 | Upon taking up his new post , he discovered that the bearings were not strong enough and put great strains upon the axles which broke regularly . |
| 17 | The text maintains insistently that Jesus 's rightful heir was his brother James , and takes great pains to argue that Simon Peter never in fact ‘ defected ’ to Pauline thought . |
| 18 | A long plateau in which the never-ending surrealism of pain muted down into boredom and there was Jo laughing bravely , veiling her fear and doing great lines from Gone with the Wind in a deplorably bad imitation of a southern black accent . |
| 19 | I dream , I hope and I pray that in our diocese we shall see God ‘ s Spirit , the Spirit that fell on Mary , coming to us and doing great things for God . |
| 20 | Readers have their say on d-i-y , and win great prizes ! |
| 21 | The crown-of-thorns starfish occasionally proliferates to plague proportions and devastates great areas of coral . |
| 22 | She sat on the edge of the bed , looked down into her lap , and felt great tears run out of her eyes . |
| 23 | In Belfast , George Patton , executive officer of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland , says : ‘ The battle marked a turning point and brought great benefits to these islands . |
| 24 | She dragged him to his feet , and saw great tears rolling down his cheeks . |
| 25 | She liked a good blame and saw great possibilities in this one . |
| 26 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 27 | I could hardly conceive what it must be like in winter : the incessant darkness ; the piercing cold when the spray froze as it hit the deck and formed great blocks of ice at the bows ; howling gales and never-ending work ; then a few days in port and out to sea again , week after week , month after month . |
| 28 | The village is in a beautiful situation , and attracts great numbers of visitors and sightseers during the summer when Sledmere House and grounds are open . |
| 29 | Yes and then we 've fiddles or melodions they all m met at each others houses and had great nights . |
| 30 | They adopt the traditions of individual tribes , like the Sioux and take great pains to ensure their regalia is authentic … |