Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening before , I had drunk a lot of good wine , and very luckily I had not made water since then . |
| 2 | In previous races that season I had beaten a lot of the top contenders , including Woronin and the Frenchman Bruno Marie-Rose . |
| 3 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had staked a lot on coming to Ghana and wanted to make a contribution . |
| 6 | I had heard a lot about Games Villages from other athletes , about the 24-hour restaurants , the recreational facilities , and the great atmosphere . |
| 7 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 8 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On one occasion she had drunk a lot of alcohol , which had made her feel worse . |
| 11 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 12 | She had played a lot of Shaw including Candida ; and created Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House , named after her by Shaw . |
| 13 | She looked as if she had heard a lot more , but was too tactful to say so . |
| 14 | For Roxie she had said a lot . |
| 15 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 16 | ‘ She had lost a lot of blood and was in a state of shock lying on the footpath at the end of an alleyway . |
| 17 | Full marks to Isobel , Hank thought grimly ; she had done a lot of homework trying to check what his rights were regarding serialization , filming and translation , and had primed him well . |
| 18 | She had done a lot towards making that sale to the Americans . |
| 19 | Yes , she had spent a lot of time with Jack Butler and , yes , she had found him interesting , attractive even . |
| 20 | She had brought a lot of her own furniture with her and would sigh and shake her head every time she found a burn or a ring mark on it , and tell me how she had always polished her things ‘ until you could see your face in them ’ . |
| 21 | She had thought a lot about her future on the way home . |
| 22 | Once Arcady came into sight , Ari felt she had learnt a lot during the past few days , irreplaceably important lessons . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 25 | We had drunk a lot more than was usual for Jean-Claude and me , and we rolled slowly back to the cottage , stopping only , on Jean-Claude 's insistence , to listen to the music of the night insects . |
| 26 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 27 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 28 | Michael McAdoo , the company 's chairman , said : ‘ We had put a lot of effort into the project before the theatre was bombed . |
| 29 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 30 | We had learnt a lot , used caution and prudence , and contended with the usual rigours of the mountains and the cold . |