Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 2 | I 'd heard a lot about er af er I 've been in the Transport and General Workers ' Union as a shop steward and so forth like that . |
| 3 | I 'd seen a lot of that splashy material . |
| 4 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 5 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd done a lot of training , going to the gym three times a week and now I 'm one of the top boxers for my age and weight . |
| 7 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 8 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 9 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 10 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 11 | Well , I 'd thought a lot about the part . |
| 12 | A little while ago it come too much for me cos I 'd got a lot to pay . |
| 13 | I 'd got a lot of autographs ; Kenny Lynch , Gareth Hunt , that bloke who used to be in The Sweeney , Tim Brooke-Taylor , Rachael Heyhoe-Flint . |
| 14 | It arose , actually , the book , from a course in fact erm for current practicising engineers that we ran here at Sussex and indeed are still running , and engineers from many walks of life , different sort of areas of interest , have attended and I think found a lot of benefit from attending the course , so suppose it 's aim primarily was someone with a background knowledge of engineering in its broadest sense , but |
| 15 | The evening before , I had drunk a lot of good wine , and very luckily I had not made water since then . |
| 16 | In previous races that season I had beaten a lot of the top contenders , including Woronin and the Frenchman Bruno Marie-Rose . |
| 17 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 18 | I was very upset , even though I had seen a lot of birds die before ; I had really thought this one was going to make it . |
| 19 | I had staked a lot on coming to Ghana and wanted to make a contribution . |
| 20 | I had heard a lot about Games Villages from other athletes , about the 24-hour restaurants , the recreational facilities , and the great atmosphere . |
| 21 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 22 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 23 | I did n't know about existentialism until I went to university , although at sixteen I had spent a lot of time agonising over whether God existed and what was Free Will , and had the frisson of reading Voltaire . |
| 24 | I 've said a lot about the visual because that 's what 's new to us and it 's also something that may be neglected . |
| 25 | Er I 've said a lot |
| 26 | ‘ But I admit that I 've said a lot of things in the deliberate hope of hurting or humiliating you , and that was one of them . ’ |
| 27 | I 've recorded a lot of stuff with song writers whose work I like , but I 'll probably do a cover version as my first single because , as a TV presented I 'm bound to get a lot of flak at first . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've mellowed a lot , ’ he told me . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've ridden a lot of good horses , but this is the first one I would maybe compare with Affirmed . |
| 30 | ‘ With having such a long time off , I 've lost a lot of speed but the endurance is still there , which of course is the key for anyone on the ultra scene . |