Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 2 | On long journeys in the lorry he 'd keep the rest of the team entertained reciting great screeds of poetry , Longfellow , Macaulay , whole scenes from Shakespeare , now even bits of Martin Fierro , in an 'orrible accent . |
| 3 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 4 | He 'd had great hopes of that chain . |
| 5 | Arius received support from scholarly and politically powerful bishops , in particular from the learned church historian Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine , a man for whom Constantine came to have great respect . |
| 6 | The men spoke of him in genuinely affectionate terms , in spite of his nickname , and seemed to have great confidence in him . |
| 7 | He seemed to take great delight in taking the church for a ride . |
| 8 | Though interested in nature , I was still frightened by the demands of the Great Beast and hung back , watching jealously how the coquettish Lady Francesca seemed to take great interest in Benjamin but remained impervious to my own presence . |
| 9 | The need for these was identified when the regular programme of summer schools for ABE students began to attract students with severe learning difficulties who could not cope with the curriculum offered but seemed to gain great benefit from the opportunity for residential education . |
| 10 | Also , Lister 's discovery of the importance of antisepsis made surgery , which up till that time had been a hazardous technique , a safe procedure , and with the development of anaesthesia , surgery suddenly began to enjoy great popularity as a panacea for many ills . |
| 11 | When Alexander came to correct his problem , however , he began to experience great difficulties . |
| 12 | We learn that ‘ he began to pay great attention to his dreams ’ . |
| 13 | By the 1950s television began to make great inroads into the territory of pictorial news magazines and the ILN started to decline . |
| 14 | I started to find great relaxation in playing with mathematical problems and puzzles . |
| 15 | He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down . |
| 16 | To succeed , you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view . |
| 17 | But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth . |
| 18 | They did exercise great influence . |
| 19 | The image meant nothing to him , but appeared to have great significance for the shapechanger . |
| 20 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 21 | Spiritualism had come from America , and had aroused great excitement there . |
| 22 | When convocation met in December 1373 even the prelates were alienated from the crown , or at least from Gaunt and those who carried on the government in the king 's name : the attempt to levy an unprecedented tax of £50,000 in 1371 had aroused great resentment , aggravated in the next year when , in an effort to speed its collection , all the bishops of the southern province had their temporalities seized . |
| 23 | The government 's discomfiture during the Crimean War had aroused great expectations of major change even before Alexander became committed to Emancipation . |
| 24 | He subsequently claimed that the Soviet Union had received great support during these meetings for its readiness to take part ‘ in multilateral talks among all states which use the waters of the Indian Ocean with a view to formulating guarantees of the safety of maritime lines of communication , including the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz , as well as guarantees of the littoral states ’ sovereignty over their natural resources ’ . |
| 25 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 26 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 27 | It was an unsubtle and false logic , but one which was effective when presented without alternatives to a populace which had endured great hardship for a prolonged period . |
| 28 | Above all I was pleased to have assured myself an income exceeding that on which some men had written great poetry , others had done great deeds , many had been free and happy . |
| 29 | Mystical writings were much less favoured than hagiographies about famous prelates or nuns who had done great deeds . |
| 30 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |