Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 2 | As Lauda remarked : ‘ He was someone I took a great liking to , the craziest devil I ever came across in F1 . ’ |
| 3 | Even before the crash I took a great deal of exercise — you have to work at staying in shape . |
| 4 | She took a great fancy to me , used to buy me presents . |
| 5 | She took a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the pompous old ass upset . |
| 6 | She took a great interest in the Factota scheme , and helped the other two to make out a rough draft of the ‘ handbill ’ that Mr Dare had suggested . |
| 7 | She took a great interest in the kitchen garden too , and calculated with pleasure how many greengages and damsons they would have , how many cherries and pears and strawberries . |
| 8 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 9 | Balancing between them took a great deal of agility . |
| 10 | Yes , said Surkov , they took a great interest in my work ; and Rozanov nodded . |
| 11 | He took a great gulp of the fresh air , enough to sustain him . |
| 12 | He took a great interest in young people , not only during the course of his duties at the Salzburg Mozarteum , but also beyond that . |
| 13 | He took a great interest in the theological implications of transplant surgery . |
| 14 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 15 | A modest and kindly man , he took a great interest in technical education and was a governor of Owens College , Manchester , where in 1873 he endowed the Ramsbottom scholarship for young men in the locomotive department of LNWR . |
| 16 | He took a great interest in the dissemination of science to the public . |
| 17 | Coleraine 's Ken Millar broke the five hour record at the Straid Fishery this week when he took a great catch of 27 trout for 47lb 9ozs on Ace of Spades and Viva lures . |
| 18 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 19 | He took a greater interest in the phenomenon of bureaucracy than previous Marxists and wrote extensively about the ‘ betrayal ’ of the Revolution by self-seeking bureaucrats who had destroyed the proletarian and revolutionary nature of the Bolshevik Party . |
| 20 | After a heavy assault , he took the great city of Toledo which became his chief fortress on the eastern frontier , extending his kingdom still further into Moorish territory . |
| 21 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 22 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 23 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 24 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 25 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
| 26 | It took a great deal of acting skill not to show her vast irritation . |
| 27 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 28 | It took a great deal of effort to resist adding the word ‘ yet ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ It took a great deal of courage for one man to stand up to the tobacco industry . |
| 30 | Birdie Mac in the sweet shop told people that it took a great amount of faith these days to realise that God was fair-minded . |