Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a great deal " in BNC.

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1 ( How would my life change if I had a great deal of money ?
2 Erm we were asked by the managing director er a man called W P whom I had a great deal of respect for , because he was a , he was a design engineer by trade and , and craft .
3 Bill and I had a great deal in common .
4 ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’
5 I had the feeling on reading it that a dam had just burst , and that she had a great deal more to say .
6 One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later .
7 The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values .
8 So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take .
9 But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision .
10 Whilst the College was in recess we had a great deal of spare time .
11 He explained why he sent on Platt : ‘ In the first half we had a great deal of possession but we needed to move the Brazilians about , we needed to hurt them a bit more .
12 The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’
13 And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again .
14 Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common .
15 There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence .
16 Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) .
17 When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about .
18 They had a great deal of trouble
19 It had a great deal of political significance .
20 No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it .
21 You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial .
22 He had a great deal to be grateful for .
23 Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data .
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