Example sentences of "he have great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever had done this to him had great strength .
2 A clear example of this may be seen in the learner driver who grips the steering wheel so tightly with one hand that he has great difficulty in moving the wheel with the other .
3 Parke , aged 17 , had already showed us with two wins in the previous two days that he has great ability .
4 He has great timing and is naturally very funny but he was always a gentleman and very professional as well . ’
5 I admire what Gorbachev is attempting , but I am afraid he has great problems .
6 And now with his own hands and feet tied he has great notions of delivering me . ’
7 That he has great charm and a strong intellect there is no doubt but the coming review of public expenditure will test him to the full .
8 He has great charm , ’ on acquaintance says .
9 The man is an unreconstructed fascist chauvinist … but he has great charm .
10 ‘ He is very much a live wire , and he has great courage , ’ said David Tweedie , the ASB 's chairman , who was chairman of the APC when Mr Brindle was deputy chairman .
11 He has great potential to be a world champion , and he will be the kind of driver we would like to retain his services through the next possible two , three years , so it 's a longer term situation with him .
12 He is a very skilled and brilliant player , also a proper gentleman on the court very fair and no matter who he plays , whether a low ranked or high ranked player , he has great respect for them .
13 Fair and fragile though he be — they tell me his father looked so in his youth — yet he has great strength of will .
14 He has great hands . ’
15 ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities .
16 This was typical of Stuart — he had great faith in his team .
17 He had great feet .
18 In his presence no meeting was dull and , as vice-chancellor of the university , he had great skill with students ; whether with senior academics , students , porters , clerks , or visitors , he was unpredictable and irreverently cheerful .
19 As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania .
20 Both in these positions and as Chairman of the Wellcome Trust for 22 years , he had great influence on the development of medical research during and after the war .
21 He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately .
22 He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum .
23 He had great difficulty in getting party support for his reforms and , although he showed great political skills , he was never able to overcome the powerful opposition of party-vested interests .
24 He had great difficulty in getting through to the club .
25 Something about Adam Burns told her he had great powers of perception — she 'd do her own case no good at all by letting him know how deeply unsettling she found his questions .
26 He had great dreams of rising very much higher indeed .
27 He had great advantages too .
28 He had great force of character , and had become a legend in his own lifetime .
29 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 .
30 On the other hand , he had great gifts .
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