Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've made a great start , but five shots after one round is nothing in this tournament . ’ |
| 2 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |
| 3 | Both Mike and Brian say they 've gained a great deal … |
| 4 | Mike Evans , Managing Director of Pacplas , summed up the judges ' view : ‘ First , they 've achieved a great deal and the spirit of the team means they 'll get better and better . |
| 5 | ‘ But they 've done a great job . |
| 6 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 7 | Well I mean I ca n't say enough for the people in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary , I mean they 've got a great burns unit there and I mean er er I think the plastic surgeons and what knot are about they must be some of the best in the world . |
| 8 | The Superdrug is right on the main and they 've got a they 've got a great big car park now at the back of the new gallery . |
| 9 | They 've got a great com a great relationship going . |
| 10 | Oh god they 've got a great big problem with Helena then |
| 11 | And they had suffered a great loss when John Crabb , their notable leader , had been captured by the English on his return from his ill-fated venture to the Tay and Perth in support of Mar . |
| 12 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 13 | They had drunk a great deal and the night was warm , but on a sudden they were both stone-cold sober . |
| 14 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 15 | During the ride to Pesth they had talked a great deal . |
| 16 | According to him they had brought a great deal of food with them and despite the loss of Crane 's saddlebags and wallet there seemed to be no shortage of provisions . |
| 17 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 18 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 19 | They have replaced a great Prime Minister with a mediocre one . |
| 20 | Since they moved to Orkney in 1984 , they have invested a great deal in the farm , and work very hard at all hours . |