Example sentences of "had [to-vb] a great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We also had to learn a great deal of poetry by heart — poetry which I can still recall all these years later . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |