Example sentences of "[pers pn] had no great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see I had no great hopes for my future as a woman . |
| 2 | I often mourn the passing of the treacle barrel because molasses was a good medicine for cattle , but I had no great hopes this time . |
| 3 | Margaret Thatcher and the kind of neutral policy analysis the tank produced simply do not mix : ‘ Of its very existence it sort of encapsulated a view about government for which she had no great sympathy . |
| 4 | Alone of the survivors , she had no great affection for the printing trade , which she entered ( " my big mistake " ) when she went to " chum along " a friend . |
| 5 | She had no great wish to live , and slipped into an anorexic depression which kept her to her room , resisting all approaches . |
| 6 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 7 | What success he had depended at least in part on the willingness and vigour with which the women supported his pleas for help : without their backing his affines could well say they had no greater obligation to him than to his enemies , and refuse to help . |
| 8 | In fact , he had no great enthusiasm for the approaching conflict : he believed , as others did , that a short war would leave the essential problems unchanged while a long one would simply provoke unrest in the civilian population . |
| 9 | He had no great faith in the excuse . |
| 10 | He had no great ability , apart from sticking the ball in the back of the net , either . |
| 11 | He had no great difficulty in getting together the numbers he required , and simply told them that if they failed to make the grade in training , they would have to return to their original units . |
| 12 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 13 | He had no great domain ; many of the nobles and churchmen — and especially the latter — were richer and more powerful than he . |
| 14 | He had no great store of political influence , and he never made any effective use of the platform of the House of Lords . |