Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 2 | Murray moved to clinch a quick deal on his return journey from West Bromwich yesterday morning after leading scorer Paul Baker was rushed into hospital for a hernia operation . |
| 3 | Fen seemed to know a great deal about the area , and as they ate their sandwiches , served with a generous helping of salad , he talked continuously , so unlike his normal taciturn self that Robbie suspected he was steering clear of more personal and controversial topics . |
| 4 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 5 | And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was . |
| 6 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 7 | He 'd gained a great deal of self-confidence . |
| 8 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 9 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 10 | Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you . |
| 11 | He jerked his head slightly towards the other end of the bar where someone was describing to the lady in question some event which seemed to involve a great deal of grappling with her unresisting frame . |
| 12 | Melanie wondered what the significance of this desolation was to him , for it seemed to mean a great deal . |
| 13 | Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind . |
| 14 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 15 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 16 | So er , you know , things did progress a great deal . |
| 17 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 18 | The It never changed all that much , but it did get a great deal closer . |
| 19 | It was the Reverend Baron who pointed out to his landlady that her husband and his employers , about whom he had heard a great deal , would be lucky to get back to Florence ‘ before war really takes hold ’ . |
| 20 | It goes without saying that he was deeply interested in Factota Limited — and in the girls themselves , of whom he had heard a great deal from Roger Kenyon , who was his friend . |
| 21 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 22 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 23 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 24 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 25 | In contrast , the father of a three-year-old rubella-damaged deaf girl had received a great deal of help from the LEA , the hospital consultant , and from social services and voluntary organisations . |
| 26 | A year earlier Matisse had show his painting Le Bonheur de Vivre ( Barnes Foundation , Merrion , Penn. ) at the Salon des Indépendants , where it had received a great deal of attention , and during the winter of 1907 Derain was engaged in painting a canvas of bathers ( Museum of Modern Art , New York ) which he intended to show at the Indépendants of 1907 , so that it is possible that the Demoiselles may have been prompted by a spirit of rivalry . |
| 27 | He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse . |
| 28 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 29 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 30 | He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community . |