Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand Turkey holds no attraction for the out-of-contract striker , who has refused to sign a one-year deal at Anfield . |
| 2 | Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has failed to win a new deal for Palestinians from the Israeli Prime Minister , Yitsak Shamir . |
| 3 | You do n't feel compelled to say a great deal , to he interesting , to be the life and soul of the occasion . |
| 4 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 5 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 6 | He was angry with the Colonel , who seemed to have taken a great deal upon himself . |
| 7 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 8 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 9 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 10 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 11 | Leeds worked hard to use the sources to provide a chronology of the development of brooch types ( 1933 ) and the extremely dubious assumptions he made have coloured a great deal of thinking to this day . |
| 12 | It looks certain that out-of-contract Rosenthal , who moved to Anfield from Standard Liege three years ago , will leave the Reds , having refused to sign a one-year deal . |
| 13 | Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 14 | Feargal seems to have said a great deal . |
| 15 | Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good : |
| 16 | He continued to hope that he and the king could work together and , strangely enough , he seems to have had a great deal of personal sympathy with the king . |
| 17 | The East End they knew has changed a great deal . |
| 18 | yeah , so I did have to guess a great deal |
| 19 | James May , who heads an advisory service , says small businesses do seem to get a raw deal . |
| 20 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 21 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 22 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 23 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |