Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
| 2 | It 's er just what 's been happening to a lot of folk , sinus trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |
| 4 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 5 | After all , a couple 's lives may have been built on a lot of separateness . |
| 6 | Cos he 's a he 's a conservati , he 's been acting in a lot of conservative party for the past thirteen years ! |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been accused of a lot of things , ’ Sabine said coolly . |
| 8 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 9 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been talking to a lot of people . ’ |