Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 2 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't really know much about Doctor Reid , ’ I admitted , ‘ except that he seems to have a great sense of humour and is — well , perhaps a bit unconventional . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As he roams the countryside he learns to distinguish a great variety of birds , animals , insects , trees , grasses , fruits and flowers . |
| 8 | He continued to suffer a great deal with poor health , which , he says , stirred him up to ‘ speak to sinners with some compassion as a dying man to dying men ’ . |
| 9 | He had told his wife that morning over breakfast in their bungalow on the edge of Barashevo and within faint sight of the outer wooden fence of Zone I , that he stood to gain a great prize … not tomorrow , not next week , but he had time , he had months of time to break this bastard . |