Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a great [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIRROR Group Newspapers has joined a great new venture to save readers money . |
| 2 | Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally . |
| 3 | She has got a great wee figure . |
| 4 | nine times , nine times out of ten the , the er door the back door or the front door has got a great big pane of glass on top of it . |
| 5 | The fact that one of the guys in the branch has got a great big five bedroom mansion is an elephant to you . |
| 6 | However , it exists , works well and has benefited a great many users , particularly in education and training applications . |
| 7 | A recently acquired photo-copier has proved a great time-saving boon for note taking . |
| 8 | The turner still has to hold a great juddering chisel in his hands and relies on a good eye and a steady hand to ensure a true cut . |
| 9 | Ray Sunman , the Darlington council officer who helped coordinate the project , said : ‘ I believe our success has influenced a great many projects that came after it . |
| 10 | Mr Ray Sunman , the Darlington council officer who helped co-ordinate the project , said : ‘ I believe our success has influenced a great many projects that came after it . ’ |
| 11 | Over the years this has killed a great many Canberra aircrew . |
| 12 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like to see a greater international understanding and acceptance of the fundamental principles underlying UK financial reporting . |
| 15 | Ian ( 4.8 ) : I 'm going to build a great big tower to the sky . |
| 16 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 17 | Someone has got to throw a great many things out of the window and get on with it . |
| 18 | The Emperor Constantine , impressed by the city 's possibilities , transferred the Imperial seat of government there in A.D. 330 and began to build a great new city which he called New Rome . |
| 19 | We got here just in the right season , and I assure you he has already shown himself a great enemy to the feathered tribe , having shot a great many beautiful birds and robbed various others of their nests and eggs . |
| 20 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 21 | ( WES AD LIB ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News , why Americans are flocking to buy a great British boot |
| 22 | The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School . |
| 23 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 24 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm afraid it must have upset a great many people at Thrush Green during the past hour . ’ |
| 26 | He 's a very silent man and yet I think he actually , at the same time , the opposite side of the silence and inwardness , … did want a great many people working on issues and analysing them around him . |
| 27 | We deal with allocation erm , spatial allocation of resources , which geographers are interested in , and of course we have erm particularly in the nineteen sixties and seventies , when planners were being very actively recruited , we erm did see a great many geographers go into planning , both at national level and , indeed , also in local offices , so you 'll find many geographers there . |
| 28 | ‘ Michel laughed again and said , ‘ Well , we do have a great many men of ninety . |
| 29 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |
| 30 | If this trend continues , building societies are poised to provide a greater competitive challenge to the retail banking sector . |