Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the air shrilled , and it was as if a great wave broke over her . |
| 2 | When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it . |
| 3 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
| 4 | ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away . |
| 5 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 6 | It was as if a great machine had been left running so long that no one had noticed , or cared , that it was running down . |
| 7 | It was as if a great void had opened and I could not at first believe that there would be no more visits to the balere with him . |
| 8 | Anxiety , weakness , oppression and constriction in the chest ; sensation as if a great weight were on the chest . |
| 9 | Her heart began to thud erratically , and she felt as if a great weight was pressing down on her making it difficult to breathe . |
| 10 | It was as if a great load fell from his shoulders . |
| 11 | It was as if a great burden had been lifted from the shoulders of the people . |