Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 2 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 3 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 4 | By doing so I hope to provide a great example for others to follow and to leave my name and footprints in the history of my school . |
| 5 | I happen to have a great deal on my mind at the moment . |
| 6 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 7 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 8 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 9 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 11 | I have to make a great effort to keep the tent tidy . |
| 12 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 13 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 14 | This presents more difficulties for the researcher , who has to do a great deal of interpretation in order to make inferences from what people actually do to their motivations for doing it . |
| 15 | But , if you are one of those people who has to read a great deal — in connection with your job or because you are studying — then you will soon begin to appreciate the benefits of being able to read more quickly . |
| 16 | He had taken over her affairs again , picked them up as if he had never been away , and she could do nothing about it unless she began to create a great fuss . |
| 17 | You have to cause a great deal of damage to a Troll to stop it regenerating . |
| 18 | To understand life today , you have to have a great sense of humour . |
| 19 | Perhaps consistent wins in the obedience ring or in trials by a breeder 's dogs inspires you to want to own a great working dog ; or perhaps the reason is just recommendation from a trusted friend . |
| 20 | The 1982 A.G.M. was very poorly attended , especially by Q.T.s and we need to make a great effort to improve on this next year . |
| 21 | Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs . |
| 22 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 23 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 24 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 25 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't really know much about Doctor Reid , ’ I admitted , ‘ except that he seems to have a great sense of humour and is — well , perhaps a bit unconventional . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The complex which is thus formed is doomed to early repression ; but it continues to exercise a great and lasting influence from the unconscious . |
| 29 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 30 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |