Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it . |
| 2 | And of course you had to have great dustsheets to keep the dust . |
| 3 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 4 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 5 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 6 | In Opposition we had had great fun pursuing Bill Rodgers on the standard of the baked beans and the quality of the fried cod . |
| 7 | When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King . |
| 8 | He 'd had great hopes of that chain . |
| 9 | But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth . |