Example sentences of "did [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it did explain a lot , especially how Stubbly had managed to keep the Mimosa trouble-free over the years . |
| 2 | It is true to say Dad did make a lot of money when , for a year or two during World War I , he had his own little factory and a War Department contract for uniforms . |
| 3 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 4 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 5 | Though I still felt drunk , my stomach ached and my throat felt like a couple of hedgehogs had had a fight in it , I did feel a lot better . |
| 6 | ‘ You did inherit a lot from your father . ’ |
| 7 | But she knew that Miguel did understand a lot about her — sometimes possibly more than she did herself . |
| 8 | We did see a lot of another Miller , Professor George Miller , of Princeton University , a stolid man of undoubted erudition but with none of Jonathan Miller 's expository dynamism . |
| 9 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 10 | They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together . |
| 11 | I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun . |
| 12 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 13 | But we did have a lot of fun . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , the Rat Pack did have a lot of fun . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 16 | I think it did have a lot to do with the status that being different conferred , for in spite of the austerity of our childhood , we believed that we were better than other people , the food we ate being a mark of this , because our mother told us so — so successfully that even now I have to work hard at actually seeing the deprivations . |
| 17 | Yes , you did have a lot to say for yourself , did n't you ? |
| 18 | Stupidly — but I did have a lot of luggage — cheeses , books for John and my hill boots — I did not take it out with me this trip . |
| 19 | However he did have a lot of good things to saya bout Leeds when we were winning the title . |
| 20 | ‘ But , you must admit , I did have a lot to put up with today . ’ |
| 21 | I ca n't , I ca n't remember precisely even so I think it , it , it 's Walsall 's loss that they have n't got an airport any more , it , it 's purely but erm they , they did have a lot of s divided up into a lot of sports fields at one time did n't they but the people who 've , is it the M E B who control those buildings now ? |
| 22 | You know that that did surprise a lot of them . |
| 23 | ‘ It took an awful lot of my powers as Chairman of Academic Review and Resources Committee to steer that course through because it did mean a lot of resource implications that were n't obvious at the beginning . |
| 24 | The money they had to pay the sheep for the Cuddly Woolly Protection Racket did seem a lot . |
| 25 | It was still very active a fed on live foods , although it did lose a lot of weight . |
| 26 | Erm y you get a lot of well we did get a lot of verbal abuse from the young the youngsters . |
| 27 | We we we did get a lot of phone calls complaining about erm loud reggae type music from that area . |
| 28 | He did n't help in anyway but he did get a lot |
| 29 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 30 | It did cause a lot of amusement . ’ |