Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed an able team of allies during his rise , but they became the greatest threat to his predominance after the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | But , debarred from owning land as they were , they became the great craftsmen of these regions , as carpenters , builders , and weavers . |
| 3 | ‘ We neither blame the Duke nor Mr. Burn , but we think they made a great mistake in accepting their nomination ’ . |
| 4 | When the Japanese counter-attacked on other occasions they made a great hullabaloo , often shouting to each other as they came forward . |
| 5 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 6 | In 1987 Graham Gooch joined the company , and together they made a great team , leading to Gooch 's innings of 333 in the Lord 's Test match in 1990 . |
| 7 | They made a great show of prayers but treated people wrongly . |
| 8 | They made a great fuss of him , because he was new and had come from Por Tanssie which had a bad reputation . |
| 9 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 10 | THE FIRST round of the new National County Under-25s Two Fours competition sent Essex to Coton , on the outskirts of Cambridge , where they produced a great effort to win by three shots against Cambridgeshire . |
| 11 | They shouted a great deal , and waved their arms . |
| 12 | They built a great number of cottages for their workpeople ; a Unitarian chapel for their spiritual welfare , a school for their children , and a mansion for themselves . |
| 13 | Overall , they found a greater tendency to underpricing . |
| 14 | They used the great rivers of northern and western France to penetrate far into the heart of Charles 's kingdom . |
| 15 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 16 | There was the cold ring of iron , as they levered the great doors shut and the rhythmic clanking of machinery as the steam from the furnaces was forced along the great pipes . |
| 17 | And J. D. O'Connor liked my articles — he said they created a great deal of excitement and interest ; I wrote under the name of Vesta . |
| 18 | They comprised a great hall of two storeys open to the roof timbers , solar , storage accommodation and bedchambers . |
| 19 | Whatever personal suffering the laws caused — and there is no doubt they caused a great deal — there is little to suggest that the development of the eighteenth-century economy was frustrated by an unusual level of institutionally produced labour immobility . |
| 20 | But in the north they suffered a great defeat in the area of the Masurian Lakes ( 'The Winter Battle' , 7–21 February ) and retired behind their frontier , never again to mount an attack on East Prussia . |
| 21 | For example , the sailing ship Thomas Bell , which left Funchal on 8 November 1887 and arrived in Hawaii on 14 April 1888 ( 156 days via Cape Horn ) , had 400 emigrants on board and they suffered a great deal from sea-sickness and hunger . |
| 22 | If one could select those areas where there appears to be the largest proportion of sites which seem to have been affected , they are in Hampshire , Hertfordshire and north Kent , possibly indicating that they suffered the greatest disturbance . |
| 23 | He would just say that they evoked a great warmth in him . |
| 24 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 25 | Although they expressed a great liking for the friendly , relaxed atmosphere of their school , they were , nevertheless , critical that it was often too lax . |
| 26 | Then , not long after , they heard a great sound like the trampling of hooves . |
| 27 | The Remingtons emigrated to America in the 18th century , where they founded the great engineering company which bears their name . |
| 28 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 29 | It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money . |
| 30 | All the rest were guest players , and they included the great Peter Doherty , who was then with Huddersfield Town . |