Example sentences of "had [verb] a great deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As a young girl , Isabel Lavender had expected a great deal . |
| 12 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 13 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 14 | Sir Steven Brown , the President of the High Court family division said the case involving the children had attracted a great deal of publicity . |
| 15 | And if he thought she had endured a great deal , why had n't he mentioned her nightmare ? |
| 16 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 17 | From what Seb had seen of her body — and he had seen a great deal — he suspected it was not far from the truth . |
| 18 | He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One student teacher , carrying out a project on food , had done a great deal of oral history work and used pictorial sources . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them . |
| 24 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 25 | I had talked a great deal to her about my nights in Marcus . |
| 26 | During the ride to Pesth they had talked a great deal . |
| 27 | The trigger had been the near fatality which , although in itself buried , had awakened a great deal of emotional hurt that could not be ignored and for which he was impelled to seek help . |
| 28 | By this time poor Dr Dunstaple had voided a great deal of " rice-water " fluid and was seized by perpetual , agonizing cramps . |
| 29 | But Mr Stewart said his talks with Bruce Millan , the EC commissioner heading regional affairs , had shown a great deal of support for Merseyside . |
| 30 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |