Example sentences of "and had [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 2 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 3 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 4 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 5 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 6 | Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more . |