Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 2 | ‘ Indeed and I 've heard great accounts of them , ’ Father Devlin said . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think that I 've made great strides in the game ’ , he comments , ‘ but I 've made steady progress since I turned pro . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 5 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 6 | ’ I 've got great sympathy for the people of Upton because unless they understand the situation , then I can see why they 're fearful . |
| 7 | ‘ I have taken great pains to stress that aspect in the sometimes heated discussions , ’ he said , adding he was not enthusiastic about the original proposals and still had serious reservations . |
| 8 | I have found great relief from back pain , my tension and worry is very much reduced , and my doctor has given up even taking my blood pressure . |
| 9 | One particular aspect of the economic life of Israel which has received great attention in the history of the Church and which needs further expansion is the prohibition on usury . |
| 10 | This transferral of authority for the modes of communication , this claim on the symbolic realm of language , strikes at the core of the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan which has gained great allegiance , as developed by Kristeva , for instance . |
| 11 | The decision came as a huge relief to Microsoft which has placed great emphasis on its Windows software programme , the latest version of which was released only last week . |
| 12 | Among the Arabs , Saudi Arabia , which had invested great prestige in the plan , has suffered the biggest setback . |
| 13 | Among the Arabs , Saudi Arabia , which had invested great prestige in the plan , has suffered the biggest setback . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus , in May 1988 , one of the highest turn-outs of Lords this century saw the Government home on the introduction of a flat-rate poll tax , a measure which had caused great concern amongst regular attendants . |
| 16 | Defending , David Allan , said the crash was something his client regretted and which had caused great distress to both sides . |
| 17 | Recently there have been serious developments pertaining to the activities of the group known as the Mandela Football Club which have raised great concern within the mass democratic movement and struggling people as a whole . |
| 18 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 19 | ‘ Hear you 've got great things going on over there . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed Butzer is a geographer who has made great contributions in defining a field of Pleistocene Geography which was the term used as a subtitle for his book on Environment and Archaeology first published in 1964 . |
| 21 | While she occupies an isolated public position she has drawn great comfort from her two children , Princes William and Harry , who are undoubtedly the two most important people in her life . |
| 22 | Suede do n't admire obscure little indie bands ; we admire the Stones and The Beatles , megastars who 've written great records . ’ |
| 23 | Sailing away from the wind is known as running and you 've got great freedom of choice in the exact course you pick , you can even sail dead downwind . |
| 24 | Congratulations , you 've got great taste in engagement rings … ’ |
| 25 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 26 | As for Annie Murphy , whose life the Irish papers say has been threatened , if she returns , Mr Hudson felt she had showed great courage . |
| 27 | She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it . |
| 28 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 29 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 30 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |