Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been given a lot of support from fans , especially letters written to me nearer the time . |
| 2 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 3 | One approach that has been given a lot of importance is distinctive feature analysis , which is based on the principle that phonemes should be regarded not as independent and indivisible units , but instead as combinations of different features . |
| 4 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 5 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 6 | Been painted a lot ! |
| 7 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 8 | Getting into your loft quickly and safely has been made a lot easier with the unique collection of aluminium and wooden ladders and staircases available from the Loft Shop . |
| 9 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 10 | ‘ Thessy says he 's been offered a lot of money for a charter ? ’ |
| 11 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 12 | This one 's been used a lot of times . |
| 13 | No this is just a pr it 's a private , it 's not an ex-rental one , i it really is in mint , it has n't been used a lot . |
| 14 | As a result of the invasion , the Iraqui invasion on August the second , many economies , especially in the third world countries developing countries , have been affected a lot by this crisis , not only in terms of erm world trade , the international security , the stability in the world , stability in the international markets and so on so forth , but also with regard to the ruminations from the ex-patriots living in the gulf area in general . |
| 15 | I mean it 's not only Kuwait as a country has been affected erm with regard to the ex-patriots , also the countries , the home countries of the ex-patriots , have been affected a lot , especially the third world countries . |
| 16 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 17 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 18 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |