Example sentences of "[pron] do a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 2 | From then on I did a great deal of telephoning to him ; but , as usual , he preferred contact de vive voix . |
| 3 | I did a great deal of work for my constituency as an MP and plan to do a lot more . |
| 4 | Plaid Cymru , which did a similar deal , was preparing to vote with the Government . |
| 5 | Plaid Cymru , which did a similar deal , voted with the Government , acknowledging that its deal did go further . |
| 6 | If you do a great deal of formal or business entertaining then this sort of dining room is essential . |
| 7 | She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror . |
| 8 | Jill Duffy is certainly highly involved with the state of her home and she does a great deal of housework that many other people would consider unnecessary . |
| 9 | Mr Gorbachev would like them to do a great deal more . |
| 10 | ’ We did a great deal on behalf of Nicholas Brown and are very surprised to hear that he has any complaints about the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together . |
| 12 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 13 | They did a great deal of damage to vineyards , roads , bridges and houses and threatened the villages of St Alfio , Fornazzo and Macchia . |
| 14 | One is scratching — not the ground ( which they do a great deal ) but of themselves . |
| 15 | It is true that when they use words like " aggression " and - " altruism " ( which they do a great deal ) they make a pretence that they have somehow dissociated these terms from their human behavioural origins — but it is only a pretence . |
| 16 | He did a great deal of walking . |
| 17 | When he talked about the " transformation " of Algeria , as he did a great deal in 1959 and 1960 , de Gaulle slipped back into the rhetoric of his other association idea ( labour-capital association ) , a rhetoric which was influenced by the social catholicism of his early years . |
| 18 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 19 | ‘ On the contrary , my lovely , it did a great deal for me . |
| 20 | In fact , it does a great deal less ! |
| 21 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
| 22 | I have included this somewhat lengthy account of the inception of the AEP since it does a good deal to explain some of the subsequent strengths and weaknesses of these highly influential programmes . |