Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 2 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 3 | He 'd expected a great brazen trumpet hanging , with a legend in outlandish characters — ‘ Who dares to brave the giant 's wrath , let him sound this trump . ’ |
| 4 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |
| 5 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 6 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 7 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 8 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 9 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 10 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 11 | He 'd gained a great deal of self-confidence . |
| 12 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 13 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 14 | Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you . |
| 15 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 16 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 17 | Lower status samurai , increasingly influential in domain or Bakufu bureaucracies , began to demand a greater say in the running of political affairs . |
| 18 | He had taken over her affairs again , picked them up as if he had never been away , and she could do nothing about it unless she began to create a great fuss . |
| 19 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 20 | Their concerns now became far more parochial and ethnic , and party considerations undoubtedly began to play a greater part . |
| 21 | It was not until the 1950s that the investment role of the services began to play a greater part in government debates while the 1960s are the period par excellence of the human capital theory and theorists . |
| 22 | The Emperor Constantine , impressed by the city 's possibilities , transferred the Imperial seat of government there in A.D. 330 and began to build a great new city which he called New Rome . |
| 23 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 24 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 25 | He 's a very silent man and yet I think he actually , at the same time , the opposite side of the silence and inwardness , … did want a great many people working on issues and analysing them around him . |
| 26 | So you did feel a great urge to conceive or bear a child yourself ? |
| 27 | We deal with allocation erm , spatial allocation of resources , which geographers are interested in , and of course we have erm particularly in the nineteen sixties and seventies , when planners were being very actively recruited , we erm did see a great many geographers go into planning , both at national level and , indeed , also in local offices , so you 'll find many geographers there . |
| 28 | So er , you know , things did progress a great deal . |
| 29 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 30 | We 're sure Alan Sugar will be pleased to know he still has one fan left , and we have to admit that he did play a great part in bringing PCs to the masses . |