Example sentences of "he a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric has a transfer which , on the face of it , offers him a greater opportunity of first-team football . ’ |
| 2 | His antiquarian temperament has made him a greater snapper-up of unconsidered trifles of archaeology , architecture and literature . |
| 3 | He 'll give him a greater measure of liberty even so , if Harry 'll give his parole , but Harry 'll give him nothing short of a dagger . |
| 4 | Ivanisevic now has a 4–1 record over Sampras and said after the match he thought the American had not done enough to deserve the top ranking , claiming that Jim Courier 's two Grand Slam wins last year gave him a greater claim to the title . |
| 5 | There stretched before him a great expanse of mud-trodden grass , gleaming brokenly like water viewed from a height in the summer sun . |
| 6 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 7 | He 's my oldest friend , so I 'm allowed to call him a great pedant . |
| 8 | Michael Bridges , the scientific journalist who first revealed to the public at large that this project existed — and we all owe him a great debt … ’ |
| 9 | We all owe him a great debt of gratitude , and we wish him well . |
| 10 | But sometimes it is disturbing to mothers , so if you feel uncomfortable about it you can try giving him a toy to hold while he 's on the toilet seat ’ ; and in general : ‘ If you take it easy in caring for your baby , you will be doing him a great service . ’ |
| 11 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 12 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 13 | The little goblin , who was terribly afraid of what the king of the vookodlaks would do to him if Yanek went home to look after his grandfather , gave him a great push . |
| 14 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
| 15 | But secretly he loved the idea , and it gave him a great kick to tell his friends and business acquaintances that he was supporting his son on the amateur golf circuit . |
| 16 | And I was walking away , and turned and gave him a great kick , you know , right in his balls , and I said , ‘ Come on then ’ , took a mad fit , you know , and I |
| 17 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 18 | But that very willingness to apply himself , coupled with the great skill he has , still makes him a great player in my view . |
| 19 | Arise , lift up the lad … for I will make him a great nation . ’ |
| 20 | Comedian Michael Bentine recounted that he had asked a sensitive why some parts of the chalk countryside around Folkestone , where he lived , gave him a great feeling of security and peace while others made him feel uncomfortable and nervous . |
| 21 | Milosevic carries with him a great charge of evil , but he has a limited mind ; but precisely because he has a limited mind , he was very impressed by that Academy document . |
| 22 | During Worswick 's time there , Harwell — as part of the AEA — made the transition to a trading fund ( effectively a nationalised company rather than a government department ) , an experience that taught him a great deal about finance . |
| 23 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 24 | This is an important area in which you can help him a great deal if you can make him feel that with you open grieving is permissible . |
| 25 | There are many of us who owe him a great deal . |
| 26 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 27 | Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress . |
| 28 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 29 | The fact that he had very little free consecutive time for his own writing began to worry him a great deal , and he missed the familiar life of Kensington , with its public house and local shops . |
| 30 | He said he would be relieved to have the operation performed because his hernia was now bothering him a great deal . |