Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 2 | One teacher showed a brief extract from a historical film that had proved a great box office success . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |