Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon now they will be ready and then I mean to hold a great feast for all my people . |
| 2 | I intend to make a great deal of money from this if my speculations are correct . ’ |
| 3 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 4 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 5 | By doing so I hope to provide a great example for others to follow and to leave my name and footprints in the history of my school . |
| 6 | I happen to have a great deal on my mind at the moment . |
| 7 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 8 | Would I have cut a greater dash in the world ? |
| 9 | It erm I suppose released a great deal of pressure that seemed to have been building up . |
| 10 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 11 | On the other hand I do favour a greater amount of ‘ non-scientific ’ components — e.g. philosophy , history of science — which if taught well put the practical science into proper context . |
| 12 | I 'm 30 , and I would n't go rushing into anything unexpected but I do think a great deal about this . ’ |
| 13 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 14 | valium is not an accepted treatment for depression and that we have excellent anti-depressant drugs , particularly ones that have come just in recent years that are very effective for depression , and I think bringing a great deal of benefit to depressed people . |
| 15 | ‘ I am in covenant with other church leaders in Yorkshire and this , I think has a great significance — the way that we work together and the personal friendships that are growing between us . |
| 16 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 17 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 18 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 19 | And when it was all over , I had formed a great attachment and respect for my penis . |
| 20 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 21 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 22 | I had talked a great deal to her about my nights in Marcus . |
| 23 | I was down in the workshops and I 've run a great splinter into my thumb . ’ |
| 24 | What about it like this , see , I 've done all those hats , I 've done the , I 've gone a great hat I have |
| 25 | I 've written a great many books for children and some for adults about children ( several from both categories have caused a wave of national commotion ) , broadcasted , televised , been translated into every language including some I had n't realised existed — and what about a bizarre unidentifiable Japanese edition that is put out as one of my books , that for all I know is a codebook for terrorists or drug-runners ! |
| 26 | I 've gained a great deal of experience these psst two and a half years and I think I could manage a stud farm quite easily now . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've met a great number of very interesting people , ’ he murmurs . |
| 28 | I 've made a great deal of progress , as you can see . ’ |
| 29 | Kylie told the magazine reporter : ‘ I 've had a great family life and have n't had the sort of problems she encountered . |
| 30 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |