Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is about a guy struggling from one crisis to the next and part of the appeal is that he is not particularly likeable , so you do n't mind seeing him get a rough deal , but like an awkward Grandfather you hopethings will turn out OK . |
| 2 | That meant the way was now open for him to strike a private deal . |
| 3 | He lived a great deal in his fantasies and he enjoyed these . |
| 4 | He channelled a great deal of effort into his group , almost as an act of revenge . |
| 5 | Mageeba makes no concessions to the white political world yet he understands a great deal about it . |
| 6 | True , he owned a good deal of this land and could stop any building on his own acres . |
| 7 | He read a great deal as a child and later said that he read Euclid as easily as an adult reads a novel . |
| 8 | But he devoted a great deal of prior thought to the mood which he wished to create . |
| 9 | Finally , he devoted a good deal of attention to the problem of the implications of his general historical approach for understanding the character of Christianity itself , particularly in The Absoluteness of Christianity ( 1901 ; E.T . |
| 10 | Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad . |
| 11 | On the other hand , he has a great deal of confidence in Noorda 's intellectual prowess and innate capitalism to deliver for Sun what Sun needs from USL as USL 's ‘ largest customer ’ : low royalties , available source , open interfaces , technological innovation and resolution of any channel conflict with SunSoft . |
| 12 | He has a great deal of land , his fingers in numerous profit-making pies , owns racehorses — and , of course , the added bonus of being extremely attractive to women . |
| 13 | Basil , my five-year-old has also been working , as he has a great deal to learn to ensure he will begin his eventing career in March filled with confidence . |
| 14 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 15 | He worries a great deal about the house . ’ |
| 16 | He loves opera , in that the long rehearsal span and run of performances allows him ‘ to get the psychology out of the way in the first few days ’ — clearly , he worries a great deal about the mental interchange with his workforce — but he intends to keep a balance with concert work . |
| 17 | He contributed a great deal to the development of Welsh drama with both original plays and translations , while his book on Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom ( 1930 , revised edn. 1979 ) was the fruit of a lifelong study of the subject . |
| 18 | Some of his projects , such as Nicaragua , are done for hardly any money and on some of them , he loses a great deal of money . |
| 19 | As my son had won one , this meant he suffered a great deal of embarrassment . |
| 20 | He negotiated a similar deal with an Australian bank for most of the other half . |
| 21 | But I remember Philip telling me of a man he admired a great deal , and ‘ t was Guy fitzAlan of Ashby Chase . |
| 22 | Though he travels a good deal in his job as an engineering manager , he could now enjoy the prospect of climbing , walking and fishing in the beautiful scenery he loves . |
| 23 | So naturally he travels a great deal , and is in demand as a consultant wherever Roman sites are being excavated . |
| 24 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 25 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 26 | It was always good , the more so because he spent a great deal of time trapped indoors by his choice of work , a choice governed by his wish to acquire a useful little nest-egg in a relatively short time . |
| 27 | He spent a great deal of time on the telephone and he was often out of the house on various missions , not returning until late at night . |
| 28 | ‘ He spent a great deal on you , I imagine . |
| 29 | He spent a great deal of time in the yard below with the carpenters and masons who were making the pageant cart for the coronation procession . |
| 30 | He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress . |