Example sentences of "[pron] had [adj] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had five great years at Wimbledon , winning an FA Cup medal , and they made my career — so there is no bad feeling from me for Sam Hammam . |
| 2 | ‘ I had such great plans for that house . |
| 3 | I had three great years under him . |
| 4 | Marchbank was , first and foremost , a designer , not a journalist ; Al Clark had some journalistic experience , but not as an editor ; nobody had any great confidence in the man Branson had appointed as publisher , Greg Thain . |
| 5 | Personally , I would like to see more direct quotations from Franklin 's pamphlets and writings which had such great influence in the US . |
| 6 | But it was night of despair for Villa , who had that great championship feeling after going two points clear at the top at the weekend . |
| 7 | We had such great fun collecting the toys because we bought them on days off when we were out on a spree . |
| 8 | The fans are more fanatical and although we had some great times at Goodison , this could be something else . |
| 9 | We had some great times in the army . |
| 10 | He did his best to keep me right and we had some great times together , on and off the pitch . ’ |
| 11 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 12 | ‘ But it 's odd , we had these great reviews after our Leeds show , and I thought we totally bombed . |
| 13 | ‘ But it 's odd , we had these great reviews after our Leeds show , and I thought we totally bombed . |
| 14 | And then they had that great Aquatade Aquacade in another place . |
| 15 | It certainly did not appear to be because they had any great fear of violence or mass escapes . |
| 16 | It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now . |
| 17 | He had one great advantage over all the others . |
| 18 | Eisenhower quickly learned that political life was considerably less orderly than that of the army ; but he had one great asset — enormous personal popularity . |
| 19 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |
| 20 | ‘ He had this great ability to get to know people very quickly , and wherever he was , he was invited to all the best and most glittering parties . |
| 21 | The press may have labelled them all Brats , but not all of them had any great desire to raise hell and make headlines . |