Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 2 | I have to make a great effort to keep the tent tidy . |
| 3 | You have to cause a great deal of damage to a Troll to stop it regenerating . |
| 4 | To understand life today , you have to have a great sense of humour . |
| 5 | Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs . |
| 6 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 7 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 8 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 9 | Being a Freemason , he had to memorize a great deal of material , and he did this with TL in his do-it-yourself SAS study . |