Example sentences of "[vb past] have a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 2 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 3 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 4 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 5 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 6 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 7 | This book provided a fundamental basis for the conservation movement ( Mumford , 1931 ) , it proved to have a great influence upon the way in which land was visualized and used ( Lowenthal , 1965 ) , and its full title Man and Nature or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action clearly indicates the direction in which it was pointing . |
| 8 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 9 | JC : Eric Crozier had had a great success producing The Bartered Bride . |