Example sentences of "did a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose he did a great service by making people laugh with those outrageous characters rather than at them . ’ |
| 2 | For the headmaster he did a great act as the old-style schoolboy of the boys ’ weeklies : ‘ Play up , play up , and play the game ’ , and all that kind of thing . |
| 3 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | I also did a great deal of amateur acting with the Progress Theatre in Reading . |
| 5 | He did a great deal of walking . |
| 6 | Charles did a great deal to assist the lot of the Lombardian peasantry whose lives had fared badly during the conflicts that succeeded the Renaissance . |
| 7 | They did a great deal of damage to vineyards , roads , bridges and houses and threatened the villages of St Alfio , Fornazzo and Macchia . |
| 8 | The Mites did a great deal of touring and were given outdoor clothing , often a hooded cloak , socks and shoes , even a suitcase each . |
| 9 | ‘ Mabs ’ , as she was affectionately called , also did a great deal of choreography . |
| 10 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 11 | I also did a great deal of business with Alfred Gates , director of Ackermann 's , and I had great respect for him . |
| 12 | The Victoria Gillick campaign to deny contraceptive advice to girls under sixteen without their parents consent did a great deal of harm in this respect . |
| 13 | The Braithwaites , Joseph and Daniel , were employed on a regular basis as masons and did a great deal of work , not only on the mine , but off it , such as at Cat Bank where a large amount of walling was required apart from the actual building . |
| 14 | From then on I did a great deal of telephoning to him ; but , as usual , he preferred contact de vive voix . |
| 15 | I remember erm one morning he came in in a bit of erm he was obviously very annoyed about something and er , when he was in those sort of moods he used to expect erm all sort of reports to be presented and er he wanted er statistics which nobody else had ever thought of and erm Arthur who as I have s hinted before was erm really my sort of guardian angel he , he sort of er did a great deal for me . |
| 16 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
| 17 | Many of the colleges with which CNAA committees and visiting parties were dealing — including the new polytechnics — had traditions of autocratic management which the DES did a great deal to undermine with the notes for guidance it issued in connection with the proposed designation of polytechnics . |
| 18 | Clapham was a committed negotiator , and Kerr did a great deal to assuage the anxieties that existed in the NCDAD and its institutions . |
| 19 | When he talked about the " transformation " of Algeria , as he did a great deal in 1959 and 1960 , de Gaulle slipped back into the rhetoric of his other association idea ( labour-capital association ) , a rhetoric which was influenced by the social catholicism of his early years . |
| 20 | ‘ On the contrary , my lovely , it did a great deal for me . |
| 21 | I did a great deal of work for my constituency as an MP and plan to do a lot more . |
| 22 | ’ We did a great deal on behalf of Nicholas Brown and are very surprised to hear that he has any complaints about the Foreign Office . |
| 23 | The Hydro Board were playing tunes with their dams , and did a great deal to lessen the impact by holding back as much water as they could . |
| 24 | We did a great deal of work with music and in listening to sounds and in rhythms , and then a lot of work in which I actually read to him and he followed all the time what I was reading , so that he would try to link the sounds and the words together . |
| 25 | He did n't have to say ‘ You did a great job on the L-100 resupply on the night of the 9th of April . ’ |
| 26 | We all enjoy a British victory and Nick did a great job in pulling his game back in the last four holes but for me the victory was soured by the silly and jingoistic utterances of the Radio 5 team . |
| 27 | ‘ He did a great job just sitting in there and keeping everything tight — and he never stopped shouting and goading the youngsters . ’ |
| 28 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 29 | You did a great job . |
| 30 | The security actually did a great job . |