Example sentences of "'ve [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( I 've filled in a couple to get you started . )
2 And then you 've filled in a works situations
3 I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months .
4 I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs .
5 We 've heard quite a bit of it tonight .
6 Well I 've heard quite a lot of it so why I should bring the subject up then everyone started talking about it .
7 and I , I mean I , I think we 've heard earlier a lot o , people who , people who 've who have become carers because they need that , they need to care for somebody , and they want that dimension in their life .
8 have you had enough , you 've eat quite a lot have n't you ?
9 There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away .
10 You see , we 've picked up a thief who had a cape he admits to stealing .
11 I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients
12 ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind .
13 I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT .
14 ‘ We 've picked up a distress signal .
15 You 've picked up a book — you might even have bought it — that you thought was about cancer , but all you 're getting is an incoherent autobiography about an unknown .
16 I think once you 've let loose a case like this , it will be very hard to contain it .
17 You 've let out a bag of trouble for yourself , ’ said Lucenzo harshly .
18 But I 've come down a bit now .
19 No well er I , I expect you 've caught up a bit now have n't you ?
20 When they 've cooled down a bit you can put them in your bed , warm it up nice .
21 When you 've saved up a card , I do n't know how many there are in it you got a pound worth of gifts at
22 Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit .
23 Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it .
24 Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is .
25 Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John
26 But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children .
27 So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole .
28 Yeah , I 've read I do n't think I 've read every thousand pages of it , but I 've , I 've I 've done quite a lot of of it yes .
29 So they went up there and did that , and then , I ca they 've done quite a lot and then they 're going up London tomorrow , I think .
30 We 've missed out a shot of Bernard which has to be done over Miriam 's shoulder — which is now 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean with the rest of her .
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