Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [verb] a great [noun] " 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 | 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 . |