Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 2 | I I became a great friend of hers actually , er she looked out of place on the bench . |
| 3 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 4 | I made a great bonfire of it and stood and watched it burn until every trace of him was wiped off the face of the earth . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When I auditioned for him I made a great impression — or so I was told . |
| 6 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
| 7 | I got a great response from BSK Limited , Machine Knitting Monthly , Angela Gordon , Marion Nelson and , of course , Ann Kite . |
| 8 | ‘ But let me add , Liza and I got a great education . |
| 9 | I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside . |
| 10 | ‘ I got a great reception but the club were always generous to me when I played and managed here . |
| 11 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's done well for himself , and as things have turned out , I got a great move to a club that are really flying at the moment . |
| 13 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 14 | This I found a great help . |
| 15 | Each book ran to 64 pages and from these gems I learnt a great deal about Soccer , Cricket , Rugby Union , Rugby League and other sports . |
| 16 | Basil was a very potent influence on me — I learnt a great deal from him about art and the teaching of art — indeed , more than from any other single person . |
| 17 | It was my first visit and I learnt a great deal from his experience . |
| 18 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 19 | ( Leonard called him , ‘ a wise man ; a world-study teacher , ’ adding ‘ I received a great deal from my grandfather . ’ ) |
| 20 | For Andrew Stavanger himself I developed a great respect . |
| 21 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |
| 22 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 23 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 24 | I heard a great commotion in the hallway . |
| 25 | I derived a great deal of amusement out of this because he got so carried away , huffing and puffing , and once he unleashed a mighty kick with ‘ Take that , you bastard ’ , sadly forgetting that he was still chained at the time . |
| 26 | At the end of it all I felt a great sense of relief and well-being , and now I always go to Norway for treatment . |
| 27 | I think all along the line I felt a great sense of privilege at being able to share the gospel , and that God had chosen , and was going to use me . |
| 28 | I felt a great relief at having lost the privilege of performing . |
| 29 | I knew the guys in the punk bands because they were the people I spent time with : people like Joe Strummer and Paul Weller I felt a great affection for as men , as well as admiring what they did . ’ |
| 30 | Soon I felt a great pain in my head and my breathing became more and more difficult . |