Example sentences of "do a lot " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he had done a lot of mischief in there . |
| 32 | She says : ‘ It feels like I 've done a lot of work . |
| 33 | Wadland told Northampton Crown Court : ‘ I am well aware I 've done a lot of hurt and damage . |
| 34 | The lad has done a lot for the club out in the middle and in the dressing room , but has n't answered our prime need — someone to knock over the opposition . |
| 35 | I bet you 've done a lot worse than chuck a Perk in a canal . ’ |
| 36 | I read a great book recently by a guy called Yoop Hoopla , who 's done a lot of research into Stone Age leylines , ancient mythology and things like that . |
| 37 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 38 | Hitachi says it has already done a lot of work on the application of image recognition techniques , including the development of a method of automatic Table of Contents generation , which uses the detection of changes in colour distribution to distinguish different frames , thus making possible the automatic analysis of camera work . |
| 39 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Tata Consultancy Services , the Indian company , says it has done a lot of work for Unix System Labs on Unix device drivers and hopes to get more work now that it has bought into the firm ( UX No 378 ) . |
| 42 | Erm I I 've done a lot of listening this evening er and I 'm sure you have too from from the way in which the the rest of the board have been responding er with there eyes and ears even if they have n't always been open . |
| 43 | You 've done a lot of things in your political — not to mention your private — life of which I doubt that you 're especially proud of . |
| 44 | In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion . |
| 45 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 46 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 47 | Somebody had done a lot of bleeding in that comer . |
| 48 | I think it should be done a lot younger as well . |
| 49 | Erm if the car has done a lot of mileage , will you get a lot of money for it or will you get less money ? |
| 50 | She had done a lot towards making that sale to the Americans . |
| 51 | Cos we 've done a lot have n't we . |
| 52 | We 've done a lot today . |
| 53 | We 've done a lot today you know we 've done a lot of things about fractions and a lot of things about adding , subtracting , times , sharing quite a lot . |
| 54 | We 've done a lot today you know we 've done a lot of things about fractions and a lot of things about adding , subtracting , times , sharing quite a lot . |
| 55 | I mean , I have done a lot about it , and I 'm the only one that has , as I say , got my mouth going and done something about it . |
| 56 | But the breathless battering of the shower had done a lot to sluice away the weariness and discomfort of the past couple of days , and perhaps she felt bold enough to try . |
| 57 | Especially if you 've paid or done a lot to get in — whether it 's the snooker hall or the Garrick . ’ |
| 58 | But I think that , you know , we 've got so involved we 've done a lot of work in our time , but now we do n't seem to be erm There is a younger element coming in they tell me . |
| 59 | One firm offered them forty five , four hundred and fifty thousand pounds , I said I wanted three hundred thousand , cos I done a lot of repair , a lot of renovating , and I made the bar open and I made my money through selling drink and getting in entertainment . |
| 60 | ‘ Done a lot of stories since then . |