Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The years of resentment had caused a great deal of inner pain . |
| 8 | Trisha Brady , of Cleveland Council for Voluntary Services , said the project had caused a great deal of interest in the county . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 11 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 12 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 13 | Certainly until then no national company had invested a great deal in the area . |
| 14 | At one such meeting a heckler had got a great round of cheers from the assembled throng when he had told Clasper to get off his bloody soap-box and do a day 's work for a bloody change . |
| 15 | Although eighteenth century cooking tended to use a great deal of sugar , women were expected to keep their teeth in repair . |
| 16 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |