Example sentences of "[art] great [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great lady sits up in bed stark naked , with Sien 's face and torso , and we have no way of knowing why . |
| 2 | Until about the 32nd week , most babies are breech presentations ( bottom first ) , after which time the great majority somersault round with heads down . |
| 3 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 4 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 5 | John Aldridge was around during Rush 's exile in Italy — but did n't stay too long when the great man came back . |
| 6 | The great man paced back and forth , uttering as he did so a formula of annexation appropriate to the moment : |
| 7 | ‘ As the great man pointed out , we ca n't theorise without data , ’ cited Sergeant Bird , who spent most of his evenings alone with a book . |
| 8 | Years later when The Great Bastard pulled down the monasteries and emptied the convents I took Johanna into my own home . |
| 9 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 10 | This is partly because of the great competition brought about by the flood of new records over the past two years which has prompted the major record companies to reissue at mid-price ( and sometimes in the bargain range ) many of the first generation of digital records made in the early 1980s . |
| 11 | From time to time he broke off his labours to return to the great court to look out for Tutilo returning . |
| 12 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 13 | Time and the great day fluttered round our bodies . |
| 14 | The great depression came along . |
| 15 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 16 | as if this were not bad enough , the great mudflow rolled on into the sea at the mouth of the Riviere Blanche , setting up a series of waves as it did so , one of which was powerful enough to capsize the yacht Precheur moored off the river mouth . |
| 17 | " The Meeting Considering the great Exertions of the Legislature in Surpressing the Distilling of Spirits & the great revenue given up by Ministry for the purpose of providing a sufficiency of Grain for the use of the nation , which in many parts is threaten 'd with a Famine , and Considering that great Exertions have already been made in surpressing the Distilling in this Island , This Meeting unanimously Resolve Individually and Collectively to exert themselves in putting a total stop to the said Illegal Practices … " |
| 18 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the Great War raged on in Europe , and America joined the Allies after the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December of 1941 . |
| 20 | ‘ See you , ’ yelled Jacqui out of the window as the great car roared off . |
| 21 | Nicky was half aware of the Mercedes that approached them , and a moment later he screeched his warning to Lou , watching frozen , and horrified , as the great car drove up onto the pavement and bore down upon them . |
| 22 | Moore looked up , and saw the great rat coming down towards him . |
| 23 | Again the great bell rang out . |
| 24 | Milosh awoke then , and reined back his horse : the great Koulash bounded up to the height of three lances , fire burst from his mouth , and blue flame from his nostrils . |
| 25 | The great woman came in : standing four foot eight , using a gold-topped cane . |
| 26 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 27 | On the far side of the valley and in sight of the approach to Dun Telve , a great waterfall plunges down a hillside , providing a spectacle , especially in spate , that puts even the Falls of Glomach to shame . |
| 28 | A great quarrel broke out between Chief justice Coke and Lord Ellesmere , the Chancellor : it was decided by King James I in favour of the latter . |
| 29 | As a bowler at Middlesex , Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to . |
| 30 | He saw what seemed to be a great sheet coming down from heaven . |