Example sentences of "had [vb pp] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 2 | Spiritualism had come from America , and had aroused great excitement there . |
| 3 | When convocation met in December 1373 even the prelates were alienated from the crown , or at least from Gaunt and those who carried on the government in the king 's name : the attempt to levy an unprecedented tax of £50,000 in 1371 had aroused great resentment , aggravated in the next year when , in an effort to speed its collection , all the bishops of the southern province had their temporalities seized . |
| 4 | The government 's discomfiture during the Crimean War had aroused great expectations of major change even before Alexander became committed to Emancipation . |
| 5 | He subsequently claimed that the Soviet Union had received great support during these meetings for its readiness to take part ‘ in multilateral talks among all states which use the waters of the Indian Ocean with a view to formulating guarantees of the safety of maritime lines of communication , including the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz , as well as guarantees of the littoral states ’ sovereignty over their natural resources ’ . |
| 6 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 7 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 8 | It was an unsubtle and false logic , but one which was effective when presented without alternatives to a populace which had endured great hardship for a prolonged period . |
| 9 | Above all I was pleased to have assured myself an income exceeding that on which some men had written great poetry , others had done great deeds , many had been free and happy . |
| 10 | Mystical writings were much less favoured than hagiographies about famous prelates or nuns who had done great deeds . |
| 11 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 12 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 13 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 14 | In his letter Prawiro said that Indonesia had made great efforts to forge a relationship with the Netherlands after " an exceedingly painful historical past resulting from centuries of inhuman colonial subjugation " . |
| 15 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 16 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 17 | Magnus , said Pinchbeck , had made great strides under his predecessor , Rick Haythornthwaite , developing the asset management system which has resulted in greater teamwork and enhanced empowerment of the individual . |
| 18 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 19 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 20 | The industry 's many critics had made great demands and threatened many a crisis but they had not halted the growth of the movies as mass entertainment . |
| 21 | Above all I was pleased to have assured myself an income exceeding that on which some men had written great poetry , others had done great deeds , many had been free and happy . |
| 22 | Whereas James I and James IV had built great halls , James V , like the first two Tudor kings , created a series of rooms , in Scotland described as the guard hall , the presence chamber and the bedchamber . |
| 23 | She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it . |
| 24 | Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife . |
| 25 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 26 | In Opposition we had had great fun pursuing Bill Rodgers on the standard of the baked beans and the quality of the fried cod . |
| 27 | Not that Lily had had great hopes , so early on , of winning over Robert 's daughter . |
| 28 | When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King . |
| 29 | Colonel Joshua Murchison was a hard , unyielding man and Joanna had drawn great comfort from her beautiful high spirited daughter . |
| 30 | General Leclerc 's troops had shown great skill and speed , Gracey said , but much unnecessary brutality . |