Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protector had taken the Great Seal , returned by the queen-dowager that very morning , and given it again into the chancellor 's care . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1232 the Waverley annalist noted that it was now eight years since the king had confirmed the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest and the bishops had pronounced sentence of excommunication against those who violated them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The years of resentment had caused a great deal of inner pain . |
| 10 | Trisha Brady , of Cleveland Council for Voluntary Services , said the project had caused a great deal of interest in the county . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 13 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 14 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 15 | Certainly until then no national company had invested a great deal in the area . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Third Republic had survived the Great War of 1914–18 but its institutions were blamed by many for the humiliation of 1940 . |