Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , debarred from owning land as they were , they became the great craftsmen of these regions , as carpenters , builders , and weavers . |
| 2 | ‘ We neither blame the Duke nor Mr. Burn , but we think they made a great mistake in accepting their nomination ’ . |
| 3 | When the Japanese counter-attacked on other occasions they made a great hullabaloo , often shouting to each other as they came forward . |
| 4 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 5 | In 1987 Graham Gooch joined the company , and together they made a great team , leading to Gooch 's innings of 333 in the Lord 's Test match in 1990 . |
| 6 | They made a great show of prayers but treated people wrongly . |
| 7 | They made a great fuss of him , because he was new and had come from Por Tanssie which had a bad reputation . |
| 8 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 9 | THE FIRST round of the new National County Under-25s Two Fours competition sent Essex to Coton , on the outskirts of Cambridge , where they produced a great effort to win by three shots against Cambridgeshire . |
| 10 | They make a great clamour ; they take their time , just making noise . |
| 11 | The point is that they think differently from us ; and we and they make a great team . |
| 12 | It is well known that when parents talk to young children they repeat a great deal of what the child says ( and , of course , also expand it ) . |
| 13 | They shouted a great deal , and waved their arms . |
| 14 | They built a great number of cottages for their workpeople ; a Unitarian chapel for their spiritual welfare , a school for their children , and a mansion for themselves . |
| 15 | They place a great deal of importance on the power of positive thought . |
| 16 | They preserve a great number of preludes and dances ( many by ‘ N.C. ’ , supposedly Nicolaus Cracoviensis , ‘ Mikolaj z Krakowa ’ ) , organ service-music , transcriptions of Josquin and his contemporaries , chansons by Janequin ( ‘ La Guerre' of course ) , Sermisy , Sandrin , a little Senfl ( including ‘ Ave rosa ’ ) , but only three or four German songs by minor composers — though the monk of Cracow does include a transcription of Mahu 's ‘ Ein' feste Burg ’ which had appeared in Rhaw 's Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge only four years before . |
| 17 | The next question is , could they enjoy the great outdoors without actually camping ? |
| 18 | They used the great rivers of northern and western France to penetrate far into the heart of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 19 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 20 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 21 | There was the cold ring of iron , as they levered the great doors shut and the rhythmic clanking of machinery as the steam from the furnaces was forced along the great pipes . |
| 22 | And J. D. O'Connor liked my articles — he said they created a great deal of excitement and interest ; I wrote under the name of Vesta . |
| 23 | And for centuries to come , they hope the Great Tower will remain one of the great sights and sounds of Oxford . |
| 24 | They comprised a great hall of two storeys open to the roof timbers , solar , storage accommodation and bedchambers . |
| 25 | They are not designed basically to protect animals and , as has already been mentioned , they depend a great deal upon the use of the animal . |
| 26 | They cause no great problem to anybody , and what ought to happen is that the gipsies and certainly the tinkers ought to be encouraged to buy sites and develop them and police them themselves . |
| 27 | They cost a great amount of money and represent substantial investments to the organizations or people sponsoring them . |
| 28 | Whatever personal suffering the laws caused — and there is no doubt they caused a great deal — there is little to suggest that the development of the eighteenth-century economy was frustrated by an unusual level of institutionally produced labour immobility . |
| 29 | But in the north they suffered a great defeat in the area of the Masurian Lakes ( 'The Winter Battle' , 7–21 February ) and retired behind their frontier , never again to mount an attack on East Prussia . |
| 30 | For example , the sailing ship Thomas Bell , which left Funchal on 8 November 1887 and arrived in Hawaii on 14 April 1888 ( 156 days via Cape Horn ) , had 400 emigrants on board and they suffered a great deal from sea-sickness and hunger . |