Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As for Unix , Morales said that Stratus has met similar problems to other manufacturers — many customers are n't willing to alter systems in which they have invested a lot of money and personnel over the years . |
| 5 | In practice , people are very reluctant to give up a theory in which they have invested a lot of time and effort . |
| 6 | I think she 's going off it a bit so I said oh well I 'll come and have a chat and I said listen , I said , I realize you you 've got a lot of school work and that and you 've got your boyfriend , I said , but there is now way that you 're gon na let him stand in the field , getting fat and getting old you 've got |
| 7 | I tell you he 's got a lot of blooming skeletons in his cupboard ai n't he ? |
| 8 | Prentice turned his head to see what had just missed him , making the finger-rubbing gesture and whispering ‘ Puss … puss … ’ which is something I 've noticed a lot of people who have n't met Springsteen do . |
| 9 | You know we we 've heard a lot about this leaf bud structure and what to replace it with but since this is Nottingham and this centre of lace why could n't they put something there like a loom or something sculptured to look like a loom ? |
| 10 | Yeah well I I I obviously I would say this but er I think it 's the best opportunity that people have for a career direction because we we 've redirected a lot of people 's careers in this aspect . |
| 11 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 13 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 14 | Ed told me he 'd had a lot of bitter arguments about this plan with Hauser . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 16 | You 've probably taken two hours getting the stuff out and then putting it back in again , and if you move it you 've taken a lot longer . |
| 17 | The only problem with it it 's lost a lot of power . |
| 18 | I mean the one thing that Neil Webb can do , as you say he he 's missed a lot of football he played against our Reserves Thursday night , but the one thing he can do if he get an opportunity he can produce a telling ball . |
| 19 | As that 's what we 've got a lot of . |