Example sentences of "have [verb] quite [art] lot " in BNC.

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1 er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate .
2 He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past .
3 That year nine student has got quite a lot to say , has written a very nice letter of complaint to god , bending god 's ear , say just one minute god .
4 Chris has got quite a lot of , he 's got Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road .
5 However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively .
6 Certainly over the last quarter of a century it has changed quite a lot .
7 In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress .
8 I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom .
9 I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them .
10 So he would have had to do quite a lot of work .
11 At the moment , he would have given quite a lot to stay here , and never return to the other cities again .
12 But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop .
13 The transformation of David ( David Naughton ) from nice New York Jewish boy to very scary werewolf is an outstanding achievement , with elaborate props and each stage exactly plotted and , despite a team of 30 stuntpersons , Naughton must have acted quite a lot of this himself .
14 John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am .
15 It must have taken quite a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked DANGER . ’
16 ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs .
17 You will probably have changed quite a lot , and you 'll be pleased with those changes .
18 That 's as much as her voice will stand , and we 'll have to cut quite a lot of those anyway if she 's going to get through the Season intact . ’
19 Mr Penna told the inquest : ‘ A fact which obviously must be considered is that the deceased by any standards had consumed quite a lot of alcohol . ’
20 Well I 've heard quite a lot of it so why I should bring the subject up then everyone started talking about it .
21 have you had enough , you 've eat quite a lot have n't you ?
22 Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went .
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 seen quite a lot of completely sterile ears in winter barley , which is due to frost on secondary tillers .
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