Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [adv] [art] lot " in BNC.
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1 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
2 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
3 | If you think that Toronto vertical market turnkey systems integrator Geac Computer Corp has been making rather a lot of acquisitions of late , well you ai n't seen nothing yet . |
4 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
5 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
6 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
7 | Well , I 've been hearing quite a lot about timeshare recently . |
8 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
9 | ‘ I 've been losing quite a lot of weight since I came to Hochhauser . |
10 | I understand you 've been socializing quite a lot with the Italians over the last twenty four hours or so . |
11 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
12 | I have been practising quite a lot in training . |
13 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
14 | She 's been getting quite a lot of in our jokes over a couple ha ! |
15 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
16 | He 's been chucked out a lot recently has n't he ? |