Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took her Great Dane puppy for a walk for the first time , when I say she was a puppy , she was huge . |
| 2 | You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings . |
| 3 | Then he said , ‘ My lord , you do me great honour . |
| 4 | You do me great honour . ’ |
| 5 | They showed him great sympathy . |
| 6 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 7 | ‘ I never knew whether I should believe that man … but , you know , he gave me great pleasure . |
| 8 | Sir Michael , now 88 , adds that the performance is very appropriate and he wishes it great success . |
| 9 | It gave him great pain to look at her face . |
| 10 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 11 | It gave me great pleasure to play it with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Proms , and in Salzburg , Lucerne , Berlin , and Japan . |
| 12 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
| 13 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
| 14 | " It gives me great pleasure , Madame Sherman , to welcome you and your son to the imperial court of Annam , " he said politely . |
| 15 | It gives me great pleasure to wish AEA Technology and their new journal Competitive Edge every success in their efforts to assist the technology transfer process . |
| 16 | Congress , it gives me great pleasure to declare congress open . |
| 17 | Thank you very much , er , conference , and indeed it gives me great pleasure to address you this morning . |
| 18 | It gives me great pleasure to commend to the House the fourth report by the Select Committee on Social Security . |
| 19 | And now let us proceed with the next business of the day , it gives me great pleasure your Royal Highness to er invite you to present several Save The Children awards this morning . |
| 20 | It gives me great pleasure because people are extremely kind and extremely generous . |
| 21 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |
| 22 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
| 23 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 24 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 25 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 26 | Molly 's uncle , Philip , Lord Noel-Baker , one of our Vice-Presidents recently celebrated his 90th birthday and it gives us great pleasure to add our greetings to the many he has received from all over the world . |
| 27 | Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well . |
| 28 | and the trade union movement , the liberation struggle , when you look at it it gives you great hope in terms of human capacity but they will need other kinds of help in order to reconstruct and let me say this because it is important and I do n't say it with any kind of arrogance we have one kind of miracle occurring in South Africa that people ignore and that is that out of the hell of racism we have produced a leadership which is the strongest leadership in the world against racism . |
| 29 | ‘ I know the age of everything in the garden , ’ he says , ‘ and it brings me great pleasure . ’ |