Example sentences of "he had great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was typical of Stuart — he had great faith in his team . |
| 2 | He had great feet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had great difficulty in getting through to the club . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had great dreams of rising very much higher indeed . |
| 12 | He had great advantages too . |
| 13 | He had great force of character , and had become a legend in his own lifetime . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On the other hand , he had great gifts . |
| 16 | ‘ He had great hopes for the future development of science and technology and the contribution they will make to the well-being of humanity , on the artistic side , as well as the material world . |
| 17 | He had great hopes for it , and told an American friend that he thought it his best to date . |
| 18 | Eliot weighed in by saying that he had great hopes of a young man — ‘ rather a spotty youth ’ — called Rayner Heppenstall . |
| 19 | ‘ My first reaction was jealously he had great legs , ’ she said . |
| 20 | He had great respect for Palmerston , but ‘ after the speeches he had heard him deliver on this subject , he would be extremely sorry to obey his edicts on matters of taste ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ He had great respect for the participants , even when people like John McEnroe were behaving badly . ’ |
| 22 | Nevertheless , he was honest enough to give credit where it was due : he had great respect for Johann Christian Bach ( son of Johann Sebastian ) , whom he met in London as a child ; Joseph Haydn , whom he revered above all other contemporaries ; and a few others less well known today . |