Example sentences of "have made a lot " in BNC.

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1 And he has made a lot of easy promises that he has not yet had to keep .
2 Hodge commented in a letter to Goodfellow , ‘ The old man has made a lot of unfortunate statements … he wants to set up separate government now and drive Russians out …
3 So it has made a lot of difference .
4 He 'd made a lot of money out of hardware , sold out a chain of stores that covered three states and retired .
5 I knew they 'd made a lot of money .
6 ‘ Vinny should count himself very , very lucky to have made a lot of money out of football without having any ability .
7 For years people have described records I 've made as being depressing , and admittedly I 've made a lot of melancholic records , but I do n't find records like that depressing .
8 I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much .
9 ‘ You 've made a lot of accusations but you have n't come up with a single shred of evidence to back them up . ’
10 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
11 You 've made a lot of progress on that .
12 The company also had made a lot of new product introductions , he added .
13 Tunney had made a lot of friends along the way , until his travelling money ran out .
14 it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters .
15 I mean , she 's made a lot of friends .
16 So it 's made a lot , a big difference too .
17 ‘ I have made a lot of good friends here and have been very warmly welcomed by a lot of people .
18 ‘ I certainly have made a lot of mistakes and I have learned that the higher up the ladder you go , the less time you have in which to make your decisions .
19 Nevertheless , we have made a lot of progress in recent years , and as I shall describe , there are some grounds for cautious optimism that we may see a complete theory within the lifetime of some of those reading these pages .
20 Hazel said she intended to spend her vouchers on items for her home and said : ‘ I am very pleased to reach this milestone because I have always enjoyed my work and have made a lot of good friends over the years . ’
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