Example sentences of "[coord] had [verb] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 2 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 3 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 4 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 5 | She had never said so , certainly , because she hated to admit that she minded anything , but she had seemed evasive about the future , and had shown no great enthusiasm over the journalistic course she was going to take . |
| 6 | Both candidates for the presidency in 1980 were short of relevant experience and had shown no great aptitude for working with other political leaders . |