Example sentences of "[vb past] done a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 2 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd done a lot of training , going to the gym three times a week and now I 'm one of the top boxers for my age and weight . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He employed the Staffordshire architect John Webb , a landscape gardener at heart , who had done a lot of work locally and came highly recommended . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 9 | Full marks to Isobel , Hank thought grimly ; she had done a lot of homework trying to check what his rights were regarding serialization , filming and translation , and had primed him well . |
| 10 | And he had done a lot of mischief in there . |
| 11 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 12 | Somebody had done a lot of bleeding in that comer . |
| 13 | She had done a lot towards making that sale to the Americans . |
| 14 | But the breathless battering of the shower had done a lot to sluice away the weariness and discomfort of the past couple of days , and perhaps she felt bold enough to try . |
| 15 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 16 | It had done a lot , that hand . |
| 17 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 18 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |