Example sentences of "they have [verb] a lot of " in BNC.
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| 1 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 2 | I knew they 'd made a lot of money . |
| 3 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 4 | Mind you , they 'd had a lot of practice . ’ |
| 5 | erm people were starting to move out , and I think that , I think quite a lot of people , well although they 'd had a lot of information from the Local Authority , were still very unsure about how that would affect other benefits , in particular supplementary benefits , and single payments , and that , that , grants for , for the furniture , that kind of thing . |
| 6 | Next door , they 'd got a lot of kids and they used to play marbles , and they used to bounce on these concrete floors . |
| 7 | They 've invested a lot of money in your conversion . |
| 8 | I know they 've invited a lot of guests , who 'll be staying in the house . |
| 9 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 10 | They 've gone a lot of funny ways , the Cauldhames and their associates by marriage , but to the best of my knowledge a gun has never crossed one off . |
| 11 | They 've received a lot of publicity erm and a lot of angst erm and they 're quite complicated , so I 'll go through them carefully . |
| 12 | Gary Wills says they 've done a lot of work on the swing and all he does now is aim the golf club him . |
| 13 | I think they look after them when they 've lost a lot of weight , you know . |
| 14 | er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings . |
| 15 | One friend said : ‘ They 've spent a lot of time together and there is no problem there . ’ |
| 16 | Adrian says they 've spent a lot of time in the water … tweaking this and tweaking that and making sure that it has come through production with flying colours … |
| 17 | ’ … 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The league table shows they 've got a lot of work to do though . |
| 19 | Captain Paul Donohue says they 've got a lot of young players coming up through the ranks of the Oxford City Ice Hockey Club . |
| 20 | Others may give less because they 've got a lot of members so that therefore it 's so that the provence as a whole could be advised . |
| 21 | I do n't think they 've got a lot of staff on . |
| 22 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 23 | No they 've got a lot of nice er |
| 24 | Tom Jones and oh they 've got a lot of old ones |
| 25 | I still think they 've got a lot of choice in there compared to the big one , I always think they 've |
| 26 | Gets you , the reason why helicopters have n't been able to do loop the loop unless they 've got a lot of height , is because , obviously it pulls you up |
| 27 | They 've got a lot of money , a lot of savings on at the moment |
| 28 | It 's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they 've won a lot of money . |
| 29 | they 've pulled a lot of those big old offices and er , that factory down ! |
| 30 | I think they 've got off the ground and they 've shown a lot of initiative . |