Example sentences of "and [vb past] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Edwards was Palace 's stocky , teak-tough full-back throughout the 1950s and became a great favourite here at Selhurst Park . |
| 2 | Charles Dickens was born in 1812 at Portsmouth and became a great success and was established as a very popular novelist , when his first novel , ‘ The Pickwick Papers ’ , was published as a book in 1837 . |
| 3 | It was then transformed into a castle by Countess Telfener at the turn of the century and became a great meeting place of the cultured and famous of the area , and a venue for duels . |
| 4 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 5 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 6 | He was not suited to the world of bureaucracy and committees , but took to that job his generous and natural enthusiasm and made a great success of it . |
| 7 | With a squeak of pain and fear , and a look of real hate , it ran up the back of the chair and made a great jump onto the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 8 | In fact , although the Gaels were dispersed over many lands and made a great contribution in relation to their numbers , the mass of Scottish emigrants were from the lowlands , including Ayrshire . |
| 9 | Syl 's mother was highly displeased to see her and made a great to-do of fetching an extra cup , saucer and plate , worrying aloud that there would n't be enough for three of us to eat . |
| 10 | Modigliani knew how to adapt himself to his surroundings and made a great impression on the day he came to sketch Bakst . |
| 11 | Mrs Mantini did not upbraid her , but she pursed her tangerine lips and made a great thing of getting ready to go out in a hurry . |
| 12 | Then we , the half-mortals , withdrew to Andernesse and built a great spell-wall around us , to prevent the powers of the dark from entering . |
| 13 | Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems . |
| 14 | The event was organised by Kate Arklay and Diane Bennett and attracted a great response from both knitters local to the area as well as those from further afield . |
| 15 | They were thus inspired to assume flower names , and attracted a great deal of attention and interest — precisely , in fact , what they had previously been denied . |
| 16 | In spite of attempts to stop their transmission , the programmes went out on CCTV , watched by millions and caused a great deal of lively , heated debate . |
| 17 | On leaving she joined the Repertory Company at Worthing and played a great deal on the repertory circuit . |
| 18 | November and received a great welcome so that he was able to advance towards London unopposed as any support for James II faded away . |
| 19 | The exhibition ‘ Santiago Calatrava ’ in both the Gallery and the newly refurbished Florence Hall attracted huge crowds during the Autumn and received a great deal of publicity . |
| 20 | He really had a hard time and suffered a great deal over the years from the wounds he received back then . |
| 21 | Certainly de Gaulle could not have returned to power if he had not stepped forward and risked a great deal in the process . |
| 22 | ‘ He has more experience than the other two , and showed a great deal of improvement last year . |
| 23 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 24 | ‘ She met all our residents and spent a great deal of time chatting with them . |
| 25 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 26 | She liked St Etheldreda , who was a Virgin Queen , although she was twice married — she became Abbess of Ely and founded a great House , and was buried in the odour of sanctity — ’ |
| 27 | Knot-garden patterns were highly advanced , somewhat geometrical , and needed a great deal of care in laying out on the site , and then planting . |
| 28 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 29 | The Prince of Wales , he claimed , wanted money to support his horse racing ; the Duke of York to pay his bets and preserve his credit at Mucklow 's Tennis Court where he spent much of his time and lost a great deal of money estimated at £200,000 . |
| 30 | He debated frequently with Charles Bradlaugh [ q.v. ] , and conceived a great admiration for his opponent 's integrity , then promptly made matters worse by advocating the repeal of the blasphemy laws . |