Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [adv] a lot [prep] " in BNC.

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31 You know I 've got quite a lot of material from the corpus from it .
32 I 've got quite a lot of little carvings er , from I got one from er
33 He lives in Croydon , erm , he 's old , so we 've got quite a lot of conversation .
34 We have a joint planning officer , and we 've got quite a lot of joint erm of joint planning going on between the voluntary sector and the Health Authority and the Social Services .
35 Well they 're , they are still waiting for , for confirmation on money , but they 've got quite a lot in the kitty already
36 You see , I 've had rather a lot on my mind recently … ’
37 I 've always thought very highly of Michael Jaffé , until recently Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , and I 've had quite a lot of pleasant conversations with him .
38 Well , we 've had quite a lot of money from Oxford from different people so you do n't know .
39 Baked potatoes , we 've had quite a lot of baked pot
40 Many parts of the continent have also got a drought ; in France , in southern Italy and Greece in particular but Spain , they 're not too bad actually they 've had quite a lot of thundery showers this summer .
41 And I would say , in our school we 've had the Aids team in and we 've talked quite a lot about sex education and they 're still sniggering !
42 Well Robert here a a barrister , I 'll just get the microphone over here , you 're a barrister and you 've prosecuted quite a lot of , you 've been in the army yourself and prosecuted a lot of cases , now h he says that er that the British public love the Army , but from what we 're hearing tonight , there 's a lot that 's rotten to the core ?
43 I , I mean Dave , I 've spent quite a lot of my time slagging him off but to his face I 'm really nice .
44 Yes er we 're going to the drugs squad Dave and I the launch of a new hotline which is where people can report dealers , a little bit sceptical about its success but we 've spent quite a lot on posters and business cards .
45 ‘ Few clients can give us a breakdown but historically we 've burnt up a lot of fuel .
46 ‘ I 've tried out a lot of things on the way .
47 Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September .
48 ‘ It 's all been very interesting and I 've learned quite a lot of things I did n't know before .
49 ‘ I 've collated quite a lot of information from the researchers , ’ Paula commented sitting at her desk .
50 " I 've knocked out a lot of teeth just like you did there "
51 I think between you , I should think you 've covered quite a lot of erm , of the areas there .
52 They 've dug up a lot of human bones at my old uncle 's house … ‘
53 Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood .
54 So we 've discovered quite a lot about it all really but erm in the second stanza he says , through the window I see no star .
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