Example sentences of "had do a great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | One student teacher , carrying out a project on food , had done a great deal of oral history work and used pictorial sources . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |