Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I met the great sculptor once , you know , when I was hiding from the Doge of Venice 's assassins . |
| 2 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 3 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 4 | When the charter to Maryland sought by George Calvert passed the Great Seal on 20 June 1632 Cecil Calvert was named the grantee , since his father had died earlier in the year . |
| 5 | In mid-August I made the great mistake of seeking a four-day break from London to stay with friends in France . |
| 6 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 7 | Les , 46 , made the great capture using maggots on a size 18 hook fished with a feeder on 3 lb line with 1.5 lb bottom . |
| 8 | They dominated the upper levels of government , controlled much commerce , and owned the great coffee and tea plantations . |
| 9 | On 25 February , the Germans gained their greatest triumph of the battle when advance units penetrated the great fort of Douaumont and , finding many of the ill-armed French soldiers asleep through exhaustion , seized the citadel without loss of life . |
| 10 | Indeed , Emile Burns ' survey of the councils of action , after the dispute , revealed the great extent to which they were badly organized and the degree to which in Middlesborough , for instance , ‘ each trade acted on its own ’ . |
| 11 | It was built for Václav Vojtěch Sternberg , who also commissioned the great Troja Palace as his country house ( see p. 194 ) . |
| 12 | Others suggest that the first Hereford ancestor was a cow called Silver who , with her calf , was bequeathed to Benjamin Tomkins by his father Richard in 1720 , and indeed Benjamin 's son , Benjamin the younger , became the great improver of the breed in the 1760s . |
| 13 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |
| 14 | The city became the great center of the mass movements of the industrial age , the breeding ground of nationalist and socialist doctrines , of new religious sects , temperance societies , reform movements , and revolutionary associations . |
| 15 | Peterborough became the great railway and engineering centre that Stamford might well have become . |
| 16 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
| 17 | Pasteur was drawn into the field of bacteriology , of which he became the great pioneer ( together with Robert Koch [ 1843–1910 ] , a German country doctor ) , through industrial chemistry , more precisely the analysis of why beer and vinegar sometimes go bad , for reasons which chemical analysis could not reveal . |
| 18 | Tax became the great argument at the election , he says , because Mr Smith excluded all other economic ones . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll see , ’ announced the great beast proudly . |
| 20 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 21 | Furthermore , they had experienced the development and then degeneration of one major unifying royal line , the Merovings , and replaced this finally with a most vigorous governing family , the Arnulfings , who produced the great emperor Charlemagne . |
| 22 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 23 | And , I got the great accolade the following season when he said , well you 're not as bad as I thought you would be ! |
| 24 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 25 | Throughout the tournament it was John 's neat handiwork … that helped the great showman to the title . |
| 26 | All towns drew the great majority of their recruits from their own hinterlands , though a significant minority came from further afield , especially to the larger towns . |
| 27 | Joan looked wholly enchanting as she entered the great hall that evening beside the duchess . |
| 28 | But he had been unafraid , although a tremor had gone through him as he entered the great Sun Chamber and found Dierdriu alone and waiting for him . |
| 29 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
| 30 | After this he ranked the great road north to Barnet , then that to Kent and those to Chelmsford and Uxbridge . |