Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , Château Margaux ‘ 48 , ’ one of them exclaimed with great excitement . |
| 2 | Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue : |
| 3 | Mrs Di Billups was head of Broughton Junior School , South Humberside , which I visited with great pleasure and profit in the summer of 1988 . |
| 4 | I behaved with great dignity and showed none of the resentment I may have felt . |
| 5 | If only they had asked for Donald Duck , a character I hold in great respect ! |
| 6 | Is she also aware of the fact that the National Sounds Archive now housed in Exhibition Road in South Kensington , ought really to be next door to the Music Library and it has always been the ambition of the Library to put it there and that furthermore , and here I speak from great knowledge because I negotiated the arrangement , if that site at Exhibition Road for the National Sounds Archive Library is sold , that money can only be used under the term of that agreement to provide similar accommodation elsewhere . |
| 7 | Sir , — I read with great sympathy the letter from a Liphook mother printed on your front page last week . |
| 8 | I READ with great sorrow of the demolition of the holiday camp at Dovercourt , Essex , which was the scene of the TV Hi-de-Hi series . |
| 9 | I read with great interest , Rick Batey 's article on the D'addario string factory in your November ‘ 92 issue . |
| 10 | I read with great interest your article concerning the history of the University ( in your last issue of Contact ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The Cambridge University report I read with great interest because I had no understanding of children , not having any of my own . |
| 12 | I read with great interest the article on Constable . |
| 13 | Sir , I read with great interest your leader on rail privatisation ( Transport , January-February 1993 ) . |
| 14 | An incident at the fair in 1 920 always caused the family great amusement , although I felt , and still feel , that I acted with great aplomb . |
| 15 | I remember with great affection , Teacher Doris and Teacher George . |
| 16 | Whilst ignoring his advice myself , I watched with great sadness as he gradually ruined the excellent draughtsmanship and ‘ eye ’ of two of my colleagues . |
| 17 | Whilst ignoring his advice myself , I watched with great sadness as he gradually ruined the excellent draughtsmanship and ‘ eye ’ of two of my colleagues . |
| 18 | I watched with great interest the encounters in August with the All Blacks and the Wallabies . |
| 19 | I listened with great attention to the right hon. Gentleman and agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) that it was a most disappointing experience . |
| 20 | I listened with great care to the lengthy argument put forward by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) . |
| 21 | I listened with great care to discover how his brilliant mind would explain how in a society so apparently lawless there was a brilliant way of reducing the prison population . |
| 22 | I listened with great fascination to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington ( Mr. Dicks ) , thinking that he might take this opportunity to tell the House about his relationship with Professor Bedi , who is now awaiting trial in Brixton prison . |
| 23 | I listened with great interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) when he recounted all the difficulties that one experiences in that unhappy country , or what is left of it at the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ I leave with great regret . |
| 25 | It is I think with great regret that we receive her resignation er but understand it . |
| 26 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 27 | and placed his resignation in my hands , which I accepted with great regret . |
| 28 | I wrote in great haste and under some excitement , from the statements to which I referred , [ Palmerston 's remarks ] and plead this as my excuse if I expressed what I did not really intend . |
| 29 | fruits of the forest I treat with great suspicion |
| 30 | She read with great attention , few dues escaped her , and it was with a suppressed little scream of excitement and fear that this large , lonely girl would guess the murderer three or four chapters before the end . |