Example sentences of "[art] great man ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boswell amplifies in a way which casts a slightly different glow on the affair : he comments on how striking it was to hear all the aldermen of Aberdeen drinking Johnson's-health with much exclamation of the great man 's name . |
| 2 | Cook the din-dins , put the cat out , clear up the junk on the great man 's desk , and hope my lord throws me a kind word from time to time . |
| 3 | ‘ And how is the great man 's work proceeding ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just making the great man 's supper . |
| 5 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 6 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 7 | The great man 's arrival was announced via the receptionist downstairs . |
| 8 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |