Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 2 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 3 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 4 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
| 5 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 6 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 7 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 8 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 9 | Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research . |
| 10 | To do so , they will have to issue a good deal more paper than they would normally like . |
| 11 | yeah , so I did have to guess a great deal |
| 12 | I should have to know a great deal more about you . |
| 13 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 14 | In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time . |
| 15 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 16 | ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously . |
| 17 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 18 | Cynics believe that the administration may have made a secret deal with Noriega , and some of the defence testimony seems to bear out this theory . |
| 19 | However , we will have to cover a great deal of territory in a limited space if the cost of this book is not to become prohibitive . |
| 20 | She may have cried a good deal without understanding why . |
| 21 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 22 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 23 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 24 | The ITV companies pay royalties only after sales , but they will soon have to negotiate a new deal . |
| 25 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
| 26 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 27 | ‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more . |
| 28 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 29 | The operation would at best have caused a great deal of pain , even if all those concerned had given proof of great foresight and clarity of mind ; in the absence of both , it became a source of enormous waste and disappointments ’ ( Karol : 1971 , p. 225 ) . |
| 30 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |