Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a great [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 2 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 3 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A year earlier Matisse had show his painting Le Bonheur de Vivre ( Barnes Foundation , Merrion , Penn. ) at the Salon des Indépendants , where it had received a great deal of attention , and during the winter of 1907 Derain was engaged in painting a canvas of bathers ( Museum of Modern Art , New York ) which he intended to show at the Indépendants of 1907 , so that it is possible that the Demoiselles may have been prompted by a spirit of rivalry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 8 | He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 11 | Sir Steven Brown , the President of the High Court family division said the case involving the children had attracted a great deal of publicity . |
| 12 | He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 15 | One student teacher , carrying out a project on food , had done a great deal of oral history work and used pictorial sources . |
| 16 | She had done a great deal of hiking in her university years , and using whatever cover nature provided had been the order of the day . |
| 17 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |
| 18 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The trigger had been the near fatality which , although in itself buried , had awakened a great deal of emotional hurt that could not be ignored and for which he was impelled to seek help . |
| 21 | By this time poor Dr Dunstaple had voided a great deal of " rice-water " fluid and was seized by perpetual , agonizing cramps . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Before the strict selection for black , all the Welsh types had shown a great variety of coat colours and patterns . |
| 24 | But Mr Stewart said his talks with Bruce Millan , the EC commissioner heading regional affairs , had shown a great deal of support for Merseyside . |
| 25 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 26 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 27 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 28 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 29 | And yet Charles Henstock had found a great deal of happiness in later life since his marriage to Dimity . |
| 30 | According to him they had brought a great deal of food with them and despite the loss of Crane 's saddlebags and wallet there seemed to be no shortage of provisions . |