Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 . |
| 2 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 3 | In contrast , the father of a three-year-old rubella-damaged deaf girl had received a great deal of help from the LEA , the hospital consultant , and from social services and voluntary organisations . |
| 4 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 5 | JC : Eric Crozier had had a great success producing The Bartered Bride . |
| 6 | So er , you know , things did progress a great deal . |
| 7 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 8 | The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them . |
| 9 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 10 | By the turn of the century , which was only ten years since his first professional engagement , John Tiller had amassed a great fortune for himself whilst changing the lives of working-class girls by giving them good wages and a career . |
| 11 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 12 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 13 | In spite of their own self-criticism , however , from a comparative perspective the district had achieved a great deal , surviving a punishing change agenda and formidable financial difficulties . |
| 14 | Kopyion had expressed a great deal of interest in these killings but had not passed on all the information available to him . |
| 15 | And yet Charles Henstock had found a great deal of happiness in later life since his marriage to Dimity . |
| 16 | By this time poor Dr Dunstaple had voided a great deal of " rice-water " fluid and was seized by perpetual , agonizing cramps . |
| 17 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 18 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 19 | Barton assured him warmly that Angela had done a great job and he was now confident of getting planning permission on the vast site he had wanted . |
| 20 | The years of resentment had caused a great deal of inner pain . |
| 21 | Trisha Brady , of Cleveland Council for Voluntary Services , said the project had caused a great deal of interest in the county . |
| 22 | Long before we arrived , Herr Wendling had made a great reputation for him and has now introduced him to all his friends . |
| 23 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |
| 24 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 25 | Zukor had risked a great deal in his cover-up of evidence in the Taylor scandal , and he was not going to go through another nightmare , so he decided to have Reid put away . |
| 26 | Sir Steven Brown , the President of the High Court family division said the case involving the children had attracted a great deal of publicity . |
| 27 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 28 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 29 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 30 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |