Example sentences of "had done a great [noun sg] " 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 | Barton assured him warmly that Angela had done a great job and he was now confident of getting planning permission on the vast site he had wanted . |
7 | In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes . |