Example sentences of "of his great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 INTOLERANCE : GRIFFITH 'S VERY REALISTIC INDUSTRIAL CLASH COMES AS ONE SMALL PART OF HIS GREAT PLEA FOR TOLERANCE . |
| 2 | ‘ Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You have to sit up and take notice of his great knowledge about the game . |
| 4 | One of his great scholars , Paul the Deacon , was given the task of preparing a new lectionary ( list of lessons for reading ) , drawn from the best selected texts . |
| 5 | ‘ You engaged to one of his great friends ? ’ |
| 6 | And indeed of his great love of a woman and his great love of Oxford . |
| 7 | One of his great hallmarks is the stare : not a demented warrior eyeball-to-eyeball look , but that rather silent , unassuming , dismissive look which can wind opponents up to breaking point . |
| 8 | His first film break came in 1980 when he starred in the movie version of his great Broadway success The Pirates of Penzance . |
| 9 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 10 | He knows that the rock that crushed the skull of his great friend John Taylor when the two of them were swept away in a blizzard on the Ben could have finished him instead , but he deals with it calmly . |
| 11 | One moment she was sobbing her heart out , then , lulled by the bearlike warmth of his chest and the comforting shelter of his great arms and shoulders , she had fallen asleep like a child . |
| 12 | Joseph saw the wrestling day as one of his great sea battles . |
| 13 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 14 | Outside , Tom Horrocks stood for a moment stroking the nose of his great bay . |
| 15 | Galliéni was posthumously made a marshal of France in recognition of his great services . |
| 16 | It was necessary to take the line through the southern end of the Cotswold Hills to maintain the reasonably level gradient that was an essential part of his great enterprise . |
| 17 | When Horsley had left university in the mid-1950s , with a third-class degree in philosophy , politics and economics , he had planned to conquer the world as a footloose roving reporter in the mould of his great hero , the foreign correspondent James Cameron . |
| 18 | McCarty-Cooper lived and entertained lavishly , in ways completely the opposite of his great mentor . |
| 19 | Walker was not an original physicist , but kept pace with the work of his great contemporaries in order to demonstrate their experiments to his students , and also to senior members of the university in the Ashmolean Society . |
| 20 | The Menai suspension bridge linking Anglesey with Holyhead was built by Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) from 18 19–26 as the final part of his great work of re-aligning the road from London to Holyhead . |
| 21 | His eyes shone as he spoke of his great purpose in life , and I was listening , fascinated , so neither of us heard the light footsteps approaching the cottage along the grassy path . |
| 22 | So sleepy and content was she , that she did n't notice the blunt tip of his great knob slip from her , and move an inch upwards to the forbidden portals of her virgin bottom-hole . |
| 23 | but it 's one of his great problems |
| 24 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 25 | MICHAEL STOUTE produced a 2,000 Guineas contender to match that of his great rival Henry Cecil when Alnasr Alwasheek made a brilliant seasonal debut at Newmarket yesterday , coming from last to first to land the Craven Stakes . |
| 26 | WHEN Lennox Lewis picked up his WBC world title on Monday night , he put the claims of his great rival Frank Bruno firmly in perspective . |
| 27 | Whether Pope John quite saw the inevitable implications of his great démarche when , in 1959 , he announced the calling of a general Council , does not matter very much . |
| 28 | Len pulled up the collar of his great coat up over his ears , then added , ‘ I hope they 've got that stove going . |
| 29 | I looked at his ball lying there and I thought , ‘ Well , I know he 's been getting up and down from bunkers all week , that 's one of his great strengths , but he 's going to have to work hard here . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He is exciting and unpredictable and while that can make it difficult for others to play with him , it is also one of his great strengths . |