Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he expected to pay a lot more . |
| 2 | He 'd lost a lot of relatives in the war . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd lost a lot more , Ruth noted . |
| 4 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 5 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 6 | He 'd made a lot of money out of hardware , sold out a chain of stores that covered three states and retired . |
| 7 | He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills . |
| 8 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 9 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 10 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 11 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 12 | Ed told me he 'd had a lot of bitter arguments about this plan with Hauser . ’ |
| 13 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 14 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |
| 15 | He 'd assembled a lot of evidence about unethical behaviour . |
| 16 | Well when when we were there before he 'd got a lot there ! |
| 17 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 18 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 19 | He said this kind needed gentle handling ; he seemed to know a lot about barometers , and to be delighted with his purchase . |
| 20 | He seemed to know a lot about the business . |
| 21 | If he needed to gain a lot of altitude , or make a run for it , that figure could be more than halved . |
| 22 | He managed to put a lot of conviction into this . |
| 23 | He did n't help in anyway but he did get a lot |
| 24 | However he did have a lot of good things to saya bout Leeds when we were winning the title . |
| 25 | He had grown a lot in the last few months . |
| 26 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 27 | A little later , Oliver woke up and was very anxious to tell his story , although he had lost a lot of blood and was very weak . |
| 28 | There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night . |
| 29 | No doubt he had wanted a lot of women . |
| 30 | In Rhodes he had seen a lot of her , right up to her thigh , and Nicholas was right : he was pea-green with envy . |