Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance . |
| 2 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 3 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 4 | He was angry with the Colonel , who seemed to have taken a great deal upon himself . |
| 5 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 6 | Leeds worked hard to use the sources to provide a chronology of the development of brooch types ( 1933 ) and the extremely dubious assumptions he made have coloured a great deal of thinking to this day . |
| 7 | The East End they knew has changed a great deal . |
| 8 | yeah , so I did have to guess a great deal |
| 9 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 10 | Setting up so many colonies to give people a chance to practise religion in their own way had helped produce a great diversity among the English colonies . |
| 11 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |