Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] 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 | Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view . |
| 3 | I spent about seven weeks there and I felt great inside but it was like I was wearing the wrong slip cover . |
| 4 | ‘ I love our business and I take great pride in it . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State and I attach great importance to SCOTVEC working in partnership with NCVQ so that all students can gain full recognition for their vocational achievements throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Mowbray said : ‘ Every player wants to play for his home club and I have great memories of my Boro days . |
| 7 | Now I 'm lucky , I have four children no problems as such , and I have great sympathy for anyone who goes through all this to have a child ! |
| 8 | But I do understand the real awfulness of physical and emotional pain and I have great sympathy with anyone who is going through it . |
| 9 | Labour will now be on the line they will have to deal with the axe grinders instead of helping them to sharpen their axes and the difference between ourselves and Mr and I have great respect for Mr and I believe his attempt to keep the debate about the future of Highfields and Moat on a rational basis has been very positive but completely unsuccessful and I believe now that we have to look for a way forward . |
| 10 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 11 | ‘ And you took great pains to stress that you 've steered well clear of them , ’ he pointed out . |
| 12 | And you have great shortage of |
| 13 | and she had great fun , we |
| 14 | The papers are all subjected to these for several Conferences before they 're voted on and we lay great emphasis on achieving consensus on any motion , and I think today on the Palestine/Israel debate , which is obviously a very contentious issue , it went through in about half an hour , very calmly , very peacefully , because a lot of hard work had been done . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You will be pleases to know that altogether we have raised £1,314.53 during 1987 and we take great pleasure in thanking you all most sincerely . |
| 17 | We were very close in the sense that I could ask him anything at any time , and we took great pleasure in each other 's company . ’ |
| 18 | Some multicentre studies have been published in aggregate and separately , and we took great care to avoid including the same results more than once . |
| 19 | James is a good teacher and we have great fun laughing at each other 's mistakes . |
| 20 | Now we are greatly encouraged by the work of the Scottish Council for Spastics and we have great hopes for the future of our son . |
| 21 | ‘ The season has started well for him with successes at the Peninsula Duathlon in Newtownards and at the Hole in the Wall Triathlon in Dublin , and we have great expectations for the major championships , ’ McKnight . |
| 22 | Our curriculum is based on the 5 – 14 programme and we place great emphasis on the teaching of Language , Mathematics and Science , within a wide and varied curriculum . |
| 23 | ‘ Although fewer and fewer are now attending we still meet once a month and we find great strength from discussing problems and traumas . |
| 24 | Professor Hoskins saw little in the modern development of the English landscape that filled him with pleasure and one has great sympathy for his feelings . |
| 25 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Catherine and he became great friends , but Hindley hated him , and was often cruel to him . |
| 28 | ‘ A mean in all things ’ , Nicholas used to say , ‘ was the only way to effect great things with order and effect ’ ; and he laid great stress on a constant interchange of employments . |
| 29 | I served with Marks before the war and he showed great promise even as a junior officer . |
| 30 | Throughout 1913 he put in more flying hours than anyone else , he flew in all kinds of weather and he showed great aptitude for flying any aeroplane . |