Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I admit that I 've said a lot of things in the deliberate hope of hurting or humiliating you , and that was one of them . ’ |
| 2 | That priest trying to take a curse off that I 've heard a lot of excuses , half are bloody mad . |
| 3 | No it 's just that I 've got a lot of trousers up there that are far too big for me now that might fit him |
| 4 | Well I understand that you get fifteen , it 's just that I 've got a lot of customer where I got business that is depending on the kind of insurance that we give them , based on what our |
| 5 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 6 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 7 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 8 | Have you found that you 've got a lot of things to change and alter ? |
| 9 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 10 | ‘ Another thing that we 've had a lot of use from was the baby bouncer ; it 's the type that hangs on the door frame . |
| 11 | We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’ |
| 12 | So there 's a kind of critical period here , that we have got a lot of information about . |
| 13 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 14 | ’ … told me , ’ said Tessa 's voice hours or minutes later , ‘ that they 've borrowed a lot of money from the bank to do some conversion work in their flat . ’ |
| 15 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 16 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 17 | Reflecting , Chris thought that they had learnt a lot about working as a team . |
| 18 | It was , she realised with astonishment , his version of an apology , and she had a feeling that it had taken a lot out of him to say it . |
| 19 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 20 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 21 | Only it 's just lucky that he 's got a lot ! |
| 22 | The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand |