Example sentences of "had a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had a great love of music and when the rehearsal rooms were rented out would join the musicians . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His specialities were country houses , churches and vicarages , and he had a great love for bricks , which he used brilliantly and ingeniously . |
| 5 | Rudolf had a great love for the Alps and sent Savery there to paint them . |
| 6 | The name was devised by Almroth Wright , who had a great love for such verbal inventions . ) |
| 7 | She had a great love for her children and we all loved her intensely . " |
| 8 | Certainly she was too old to be Beth 's daughter , although it was obvious that the girl had a great affection for her . |
| 9 | The St Petersburg soviet , whose leading figure was Trotsky now had a great conflict with Witte . |
| 10 | In addition it is clear from the transcript that she , very naturally , attached great importance to the fact that she knew the staff at the unit , had two friends there and , perhaps even more important , had a great bond with a lady who was assisting in her treatment . |
| 11 | But Peter Royston , of Scottish Ballet , had a great sense of humour and exactly the right touch . |
| 12 | He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement . |
| 13 | We had a great sense of family responsibilities being carried into the work place . |
| 14 | They had a great sense of humour … |
| 15 | ‘ She looked good , had a great sense of humour and managed to hold things together , ’ said one of the guest celebrities . |
| 16 | ‘ She was a lovely girl who loved the outdoors and had a great sense of adventure , ’ he said at their home in Hillingdon , Middlesex . |
| 17 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 18 | ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . |
| 19 | " I had a great sense of the worth of a simple person 's life and service to God . " |
| 20 | He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it . |
| 21 | ‘ I had a great sore on the side of my leg for about 19 months . |
| 22 | By the end I had a great admiration for Emil , Oliver and Cathy , who had neatly served and cleared three full courses with the floor swaying beneath their feet and who normally would have taken my few jobs also in their stride . |
| 23 | At the same time , I had a great admiration for Jesus . |
| 24 | As we have seen , Aung San had a great admiration for Nehru and in 1940 he attended the annual Congress at Ramgarh , regarded by Communists as bourgeois . |
| 25 | ‘ You had a great head on you the way you thought the plan through from beginning to end . |
| 26 | ‘ You had a great head on you , Michael . ’ |
| 27 | Whatever it was , it gave them a sense of reverence , and services in these little churches always had a great spirit of worship . |
| 28 | Peterborough substitute Peter Costello had a great chance to be an instant hero . |
| 29 | Had a great stable of ladies . |
| 30 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |