Example sentences of "i 've [verb] [pron] a lot " in BNC.

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1 It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed .
2 it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take
3 ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years .
4 But he wrote to Hanns ‘ Do n't worry about conditions here : although they can be grim , I 've known them a lot grimmer in S.A. ’ He declared that ‘ being new in London is a full time job ’ and described the town rhapsodically as
5 And I 've known you a lot longer than has your so-called friend Rainbow here , thanks to whom you now find yourself in this lousy fix . ’
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