Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean a great thrill he was to us , he cried come here and see this and here was among all his little moles , he had a white one a pure white mole . |
| 2 | She thought yet again : I make a great fuss of nothing , and have not suffered at all . |
| 3 | Mum , ma I want a great hat mum |
| 4 | ‘ I sense a great team spirit , onshore and offshore , ’ he added . |
| 5 | I hold a great enthusiasm for exotic foliage plants and have started to expand my collection . |
| 6 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 7 | I read a great deal of poetry , especially the Romantics , learning long passages by heart , and found some solace there to lift me above the sordid realities of everyday life . |
| 8 | Although I read a great deal , and wrote a great deal , meal-times were still what kept me going . |
| 9 | I read a great book recently by a guy called Yoop Hoopla , who 's done a lot of research into Stone Age leylines , ancient mythology and things like that . |
| 10 | But while Lyall will want Ipswich to take the points off Spurs in tomorrow 's live televised game , he admitted : ‘ I owe a great debt to Spurs , and to Terry in particular . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed , I suppose I owe a great deal to his novel , Caleb Williams , which I have read several times with a daughter 's care . |
| 12 | Indeed , I owe a great deal to Leo Amery for his wisdom , advice and the views that he expressed . |
| 13 | I owe a great deal to my education many years ago , as I come from the background of a Welsh mining village , where a high proportion of us ended up with university degrees — a far higher rate than in many posher , salubrious , suburban areas . |
| 14 | I pass a great variety of them on the way to school and I myself actually live , work and play in some of them . |
| 15 | ‘ I know a great deal more about it than that , ’ said Margaret , in a full , satisfied voice . |
| 16 | Because I know a great deal about you and about your past . |
| 17 | ‘ And after last night , Caroline , I think I know a great deal more about you … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I know a great deal about them . |
| 19 | I know a great deal about the difficulty of getting homoeopathic treatments referred by general practitioners because there is a homoeopathic hospital in my constituency . |
| 20 | Yes Chairman , I am following in Major 's shoes , I do n't reckon I know a great deal about it yet , and I 'm not sure that this erm , er , advisory er , committee is yet actually on the go , but I will go into this . |
| 21 | ‘ But I know a great deal about you . |
| 22 | ‘ I recognize that there can be no future for us together and yet I know a great fondness for the prince — a fondness that time , I suspect , will not lessen . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't mean I could do it myself , not straight away , I just mean I get a great sense of comradeship with these people . |
| 24 | It 's a great beach but it 's not like my home beach of Port Philip Bay , in Melbourne , which is a bit messy , but seeing the sea I get a great urge to swim in it . |
| 25 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 26 | I get a great deal , as we both know . |
| 27 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 28 | I believe a great deal of advice is available to adoptive parents these days . |
| 29 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 30 | All at once I feel a great need for bed . ’ |