Example sentences of "been [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 2 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 3 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 4 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 5 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 6 | I 've been given a lot of support from fans , especially letters written to me nearer the time . |
| 7 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Been painted a lot ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been driving a lot . ’ |
| 13 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 18 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 19 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 20 | ‘ Thessy says he 's been offered a lot of money for a charter ? ’ |
| 21 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 22 | Yeah erm she put , she said Gateway 's th they 've been selling a lot and there is none in Lynn . |
| 23 | This one 's been used a lot of times . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been getting a lot of flak about fighting in Spain and I did n't want Anne to get any . |
| 26 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code . |
| 30 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |