Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only common sense , but I 've seen a lot of hard-earned cash parted with in the pursuit of instrument-enhanced choppery and there just ai n't no such thing . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've scored a lot of great goals in my time . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ This course is made for me from tee to green but I 've got a lot to learn on the greens , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 've got a lot to make up in the slalom events . ’ |
| 5 | It 's very nice of you to ask me — erm — but I 've got a lot to do when I get back to England — erm — I 'd like to have a lie down … and there 'll be piles of washing … and I have n't got a hairdresser … ’ |
| 6 | But he admitted afterwards : ‘ I 'm pleased to win , but I 've got a lot of work to do in the gym still ’ |
| 7 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , but I 've worked a lot with the police . |
| 9 | Er , I ca n't say definitely yet , because the meeting comes up after this meeting , but I 've had a lot of positive noises . |
| 10 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 11 | ‘ But I have missed a lot of races and I need to run . ’ |
| 12 | McWilliams was still having problems with the suspension on his Yamaha during the final practice session and said afterwards : ‘ I needed a higher starting position to have a chance tomorrow but I have learned a lot and I 'm going to prepare for my first World championship by having a good nights sleep . ’ |
| 13 | But you 've worked a lot with Paul Seddon , and you get on with him very well . |
| 14 | Yes , but she 's got all the erm she 's got hundreds of well not hundreds , but she 's got a lot of customers , I mean , she works in huge offices does n't she ? |
| 15 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 16 | But we 've got a lot of new ones . |
| 17 | Well I do n't know why we 've got more , but we 've got a lot . |
| 18 | Well I 've had the sniffles at the moment but we 've had a lot of people at work with |
| 19 | Erm , but we 've talked a lot about erm labels being |
| 20 | I would n't use the word enemy but we have seen a lot of changes in the relationship . |
| 21 | Dexter has a lot of problems but he has improved a lot since being here . |
| 22 | Corcoran went over on his ankle on Saturday and was quite lame on Sunday but he has improved a lot overnight . ’ |
| 23 | not sure that he 's on the moment but he 's done a lot and films , er comic actor , funny man . |
| 24 | It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of telephone books . |
| 25 | It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of the telephone books . |
| 26 | But he 's had a lot of space and he 's by and large used it very very well . |
| 27 | Basically , Nigel gets everything , but he 's got a lot of it already . |
| 28 | The company mounted a rear-guard defence of its three-pronged operating system strategy last week — OSF/1 , NT and OpenVMS — but it had left a lot of substance on the cutting room floor before finally calling together top industry watchers in Maynard , Massachusetts , and around the world for the ‘ Unified Unix ’ strategy briefing ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 29 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |
| 30 | It 's pretty grimy but it 's had a lot of attention . |