Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , they had experienced the development and then degeneration of one major unifying royal line , the Merovings , and replaced this finally with a most vigorous governing family , the Arnulfings , who produced the great emperor Charlemagne . |
| 2 | Again and again , I hear people say that it is a pity that we who produced the great ideas of the world did not actually manufacture their consequences . |
| 3 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 4 | Another favourite at our CBR recital series was a young pianist from Winnipeg , Jack Henderson , who became a great friend and companion to Arthur Benjamin , and who accompanied him when he returned to London some years later . |
| 5 | It was the sort of goal that Giorgio Chinaglia — the Welsh-born centre-forward of the 1970s who became a great Lazio and national team hero — was famed for scoring , and how they loved seeing their new idol produce some of the same . |
| 6 | Because Miyagi did not stay in Japan for long periods , it was Yamaguchi who made a great headway with his own system of goju-kai . |
| 7 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 8 | Arthur Bennett was a builder and house decorator , living in Croydon , England , who devoted a great deal of time and energy to the study of the Scottish flora . |
| 9 | However , Boss 's joy was tempered by the fact that Balla Cove was sold to two Americans earlier this week and is to be sent to the United States to be trained by Ron MacAnally , who prepared the great John Henry . |
| 10 | Only the Paternoster , he recalled , would have described a revival of Priestley 's An Inspector Calls as a play about a very tiresome girl who caused a great deal of trouble to a respectable family . |
| 11 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 12 | ‘ I must put on record my admiration for Pc Court who showed a great deal of bravery in bringing this action . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 14 | Englishmen who spent a great deal of their time on horseback around 200 hundred years ago liked to bathe and change before dining . |
| 15 | Jill Ireland renewed her cuddling relationship with Williams and Donald Sinden , Donald Houston and Andrew Ray were among those who spent a great deal of their time wearing bathrobes and dressing gowns , hopping in and out of bed — for strictly medical reasons , of course . |
| 16 | And that was someone from Nottingham University who spent a great deal of time grumbling about the bus service from Mansfield to Edwinstowe . |
| 17 | Royston Lambert , who undertook a great deal of research for the Commission , recorded the prayer of a twelve-year-old boy : |
| 18 | Because these men who knew with such unquestionable certainty the difference between right and wrong , and who blithely described the garotters as creatures capable of responding only to the fear of physical pain , were people who knew a great deal about physical pain . |
| 19 | ‘ They say the god Kung-Kung who brought the Great Flood was an eel , ’ Tsu Ma said , scooping water up over his chest and arms as if he were washing . |
| 20 | He was a quick noisy individual who laughed a great deal and sang or whistled constantly . |
| 21 | ‘ He was a very caring person who took a great interest in the people in the business , he was very thoughtful . |
| 22 | The name was devised by Almroth Wright , who had a great love for such verbal inventions . ) |
| 23 | The last of the truly great road races , the Targa Florio was the brainchild of wealthy Sicilian Vincenzo Florio who had a great love of racing cars . |
| 24 | Er I was chairman of that committee as well , View when , when , during quite a long period , until the whole system was changed to the council system like and went onto er and er there was one of our , our er officer who was in charge of welfare was a Mr who had a great knowledge of both Selkirk and Galashiels and the country and er he was known by everybody . |
| 25 | He said he had a friend who had a great interest in grandfather clocks . |
| 26 | Ferenczi had reported on little Arpad , who had a great interest and identification with chickens . |
| 27 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 28 | He was a brilliant man who had a great deal of influence — in fact , he was one of the few doges who wielded any real authority . |
| 29 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 30 | To win one of 25 copies of the Book of Secrets , tell us on a postcard who wrote The Great Lover and send it to Country Living /Love at the address on page 2 by 31 March . |