Example sentences of "they had [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 2 | They had a great influence on me . |
| 3 | They had a great sense of humour … |
| 4 | He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it . |
| 5 | As professional soldiers they had a great reputation for ruthlessness both in battle and in ravaging the countryside . |
| 6 | He was an implacable enemy of Ted 's , from the 1 950S when Ted had been Chief Whip , and they had a great row . |
| 7 | They had a great passion for women , a great passion for each other , a great passion for music and trains . |
| 8 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 9 | The children say they had a great time , eating sweets and with a pirate on board their bus . |
| 10 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 11 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 12 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 13 | Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) . |
| 14 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |
| 15 | They had a great deal of trouble |