Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've done quite an extensive survey around Ottery , looking at the times people use these facilities , and the weekends , especially Saturdays , is the favoured time . |
| 2 | We 've seen quite a dramatic increase this year . |
| 3 | Through word of mouth and demand from customers , they 've built up a sizable business with five drivers . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've built up a great spirit and really enjoy taking part , ’ said Smith . |
| 5 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , my husband says I 've got rather a good voice , ’ she responded . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got rather a big order , ’ she said , ‘ mostly for slippers but one or two pairs of shoes I have to make in French calf . ‘ |
| 8 | Goodness knows I 've got only a bare chance of catching her , though . ’ |
| 9 | Over the past years , we 've got together a superb programme of trips and good times to make sure you get the chance to see the very best this island has to offer . |
| 10 | No , in this country up until Christmas I 've got about a hundred pound include , including getting Christmas presents , from now too December the twenty-sixth . |
| 11 | They add a bit of spice … and I 've got quite a nasty temper when it 's roused . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to give you a course of antibiotics , Mr Lane — you 've got quite a nasty ear infection there . |
| 13 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 14 | I think er , having said that , I mean you 've got quite a decent coverage of attitudes and situations in here already . |
| 15 | on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now . |
| 16 | So you 've got quite a good relationship |
| 17 | you 're , you 've got quite a good backbone there but you have n't got anything that really grabs my emotions . |
| 18 | No , I think he 's , I said to Robert I 've got quite a good streak cos I 've never seen Sally |
| 19 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 20 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 21 | Yes you have you have a territory each , yes , because it 's er , er , it 's we , we 've got quite a large territory , have n't we ? |
| 22 | I think you 've got quite a significant amount of money which you could offset what we 've been saying just grieves me . |
| 23 | Well no , seems to be quite , I was busy yesterday and , and it seemed to be a really busy week , but a couple of appointments fell down , but I 've got quite a busy night tonight . |
| 24 | The fact that the committee was not merely an hierarchical instrument of management , but represented all departments and a range of statuses , was also felt to be an advantage : Very luckily we 've got quite a few Scale 1 younger teachers , people with new ideas , possibly … and it 's taken up , quite well … it 's quite respected now . |
| 25 | and they 've got quite a big place at Harrogate where you could go for a day or two to observe what was going on and so on . |
| 26 | They do quite a , they 've got quite a big programme in Gosforth and Newcastle and |
| 27 | Tomorrow we 've got quite a lively day ahead of us erm by the time we do our group work tomorrow first thing in the morning , and also tomorrow after that you 'll be doing a role play as well using the things that you 've picked up today and seeing how many of them you can practice and put into action what you talked about . |
| 28 | So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired . |
| 29 | I think we 've got quite an extensive coverage now . |
| 30 | Well , let's look at you , Yes , you 've got quite an interesting shape , too . |