Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [pron] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 2 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 3 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 4 | ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years . |
| 5 | But he wrote to Hanns ‘ Do n't worry about conditions here : although they can be grim , I 've known them a lot grimmer in S.A. ’ He declared that ‘ being new in London is a full time job ’ and described the town rhapsodically as |
| 6 | And I 've known you a lot longer than has your so-called friend Rainbow here , thanks to whom you now find yourself in this lousy fix . ’ |
| 7 | I have given you a lot of minuses but there are pluses too . |
| 8 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |
| 10 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 11 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 12 | You 've given me a lot . ’ |
| 13 | You 've asked us a lot about what Governors can do and what Councillors can do , it 's teachers that make a school and schools are going to be excellent if the teachers and heads of faculty in those schools are excellent , and we 've got lots of those in Banbury . |
| 14 | You 've told me a lot about your ideas , and I 've enjoyed sitting here listening to them . |
| 15 | You have saved me a lot of money . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You have to push it a lot harder than that . ’ |
| 17 | You have hurt me a lot in the past three days , Bob , and I think you will hurt me a great deal more in the days to come . |
| 18 | ‘ Do we have to pay them a lot of money ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think Kaiserslautern would regard themselves as favourites , but we 've watched them a lot and feel we can score against them , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Anyway , we 've had it a lot have n't we ? |
| 21 | Spokeswoman Mary Gallagher said : ‘ We have got what a lot of people were after . |
| 22 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 23 | It 's a good sign if he has loved someone a lot , it shows that he has a capacity for love . ’ |
| 24 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 25 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 26 | Now I 've had a few in succession , it has given me a lot more confidence . |
| 27 | Mentally it has done him a lot of damage . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 29 | They thought it was best to know what you were up against , but Preston was n't sure it had done them a lot of good in the long run . |
| 30 | He had used it a lot in Seville . |