Example sentences of "[vb past] had a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | H. P. Some people would get a bottle of beer — we 'd had a lot of fellows come out of the army and they were fond of their drink and there 's no doubt that they could get it . |
| 2 | Ed told me he 'd had a lot of bitter arguments about this plan with Hauser . ’ |
| 3 | Mind you , they 'd had a lot of practice . ’ |
| 4 | erm people were starting to move out , and I think that , I think quite a lot of people , well although they 'd had a lot of information from the Local Authority , were still very unsure about how that would affect other benefits , in particular supplementary benefits , and single payments , and that , that , grants for , for the furniture , that kind of thing . |
| 5 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 6 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |
| 7 | When you had the nightmare , I assumed it was because you 'd had a lot of men without ever reaching any kind of genuine ecstasy with them . ’ |
| 8 | He had had a lot of practice in persuading bullies not to thump him , and now he recognized in Simon , only too well , all the signs of a violent , bullying , and unpredictable nature . |
| 9 | He had had a lot of trouble with builders last year . |
| 10 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 11 | Well — what if there were , they had had a lot of him and would find through loss , perhaps , all sorts of qualities in themselves and others they would otherwise have missed . |
| 12 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 13 | The Jura alien had had a lot to say about Tellenorean life-forms . |
| 14 | Inspector Dave Jenkinson , said : ’ We had had a lot of complaints about drivers with no lane discipline . |