Example sentences of "[conj] had [verb] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spiritualism had come from America , and had aroused great excitement there . |
| 2 | In the early days of the Church , Christians suffered persecution and had to have great faith to survive the violent opposition they received . |
| 3 | Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife . |
| 4 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 5 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |
| 6 | In the early Liverpool days of Big Flame the comrades had been obsessed with the potential of Ford workers as leaders of the British revolution , and had put great effort into organizing and recruiting at the local Halewood plant . |
| 7 | In early adolescence a girl had been fascinated by ‘ Hansel and Gretel ’ , and had derived great comfort from reading and re-reading it , fantasizing about it . |