Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] had great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |
| 2 | and she had great fun , we |
| 3 | In spite of being a reservoir , Carsfad provided excellent sport and we had great fun ; as long as I steered well clear of the dam . |
| 4 | He was all of twenty-nine , but he acted thirteen , and he had great rolls of fat on his tummy , the result of unwise motherly feeding . |
| 5 | The thought did not daunt her , but she had great need of a moment of silence , to take breath and consider how much she dared tell . |
| 6 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
| 7 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 8 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 9 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |