Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening before , I had drunk a lot of good wine , and very luckily I had not made water since then . |
| 2 | In previous races that season I had beaten a lot of the top contenders , including Woronin and the Frenchman Bruno Marie-Rose . |
| 3 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 4 | I was very upset , even though I had seen a lot of birds die before ; I had really thought this one was going to make it . |
| 5 | I had staked a lot on coming to Ghana and wanted to make a contribution . |
| 6 | I had heard a lot about Games Villages from other athletes , about the 24-hour restaurants , the recreational facilities , and the great atmosphere . |
| 7 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 8 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 9 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 10 | Somebody had done a lot of bleeding in that comer . |
| 11 | It was a case , he said , which had aroused a lot of public concern , and it was clear that Mr Smith could not cope in looking after his stock . |
| 12 | On one occasion she had drunk a lot of alcohol , which had made her feel worse . |
| 13 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 14 | She had played a lot of Shaw including Candida ; and created Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House , named after her by Shaw . |
| 15 | She looked as if she had heard a lot more , but was too tactful to say so . |
| 16 | For Roxie she had said a lot . |
| 17 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 18 | ‘ She had lost a lot of blood and was in a state of shock lying on the footpath at the end of an alleyway . |
| 19 | Full marks to Isobel , Hank thought grimly ; she had done a lot of homework trying to check what his rights were regarding serialization , filming and translation , and had primed him well . |
| 20 | She had done a lot towards making that sale to the Americans . |
| 21 | Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even . |
| 22 | She had brought a lot of her own furniture with her and would sigh and shake her head every time she found a burn or a ring mark on it , and tell me how she had always polished her things ‘ until you could see your face in them ’ . |
| 23 | She had thought a lot about her future on the way home . |
| 24 | Once Arcady came into sight , Ari felt she had learnt a lot during the past few days , irreplaceably important lessons . |
| 25 | He employed the Staffordshire architect John Webb , a landscape gardener at heart , who had done a lot of work locally and came highly recommended . |
| 26 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 27 | At home , money meant food or perhaps , if one had saved a lot , more land , but here the shops were full of the most amazing commodities and getting money at the end of the week seemed to suggest that these things were within one 's reach . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 30 | We had drunk a lot more than was usual for Jean-Claude and me , and we rolled slowly back to the cottage , stopping only , on Jean-Claude 's insistence , to listen to the music of the night insects . |