Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
| 2 | ‘ We got to know a lot of interesting things about your way of life and your education system — and we found many similar things . ’ |
| 3 | We were on the ground floor of the flats , and we got to know a lot of them as neighbours as well as some of them as clients . |
| 4 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 6 | Monika said : ‘ We developed a deep friendship and one night after we 'd drunk a lot of rum at my house , he tried to kiss me . |
| 7 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 8 | We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’ |
| 9 | H. P. Some people would get a bottle of beer — we 'd had a lot of fellows come out of the army and they were fond of their drink and there 's no doubt that they could get it . |
| 10 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 11 | Although Sigarup 's so thin now , it was a difficult weight to carry and we needed to rest a lot . |
| 12 | Not , well , when the children were born , the grandchildren , we started to take a lot more but we do n't take quite as many now . |
| 13 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 14 | We did see a lot of another Miller , Professor George Miller , of Princeton University , a stolid man of undoubted erudition but with none of Jonathan Miller 's expository dynamism . |
| 15 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 16 | Erm y you get a lot of well we did get a lot of verbal abuse from the young the youngsters . |
| 17 | We we we did get a lot of phone calls complaining about erm loud reggae type music from that area . |
| 18 | But we did have a lot of fun . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Determining the specific relationship for the reservoir was problematic as Young explains : ‘ We had to take a lot of data from nearby cored wells and simplify it right down before we could build an accurately predictive model . ’ |
| 24 | It was only in the beginning , when we needed money badly , when we had to spend a lot on the house . ’ |
| 25 | In the early days , he says : ‘ We had to do a lot of nimble footwork to stay alive . ’ |
| 26 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 27 | Michael McAdoo , the company 's chairman , said : ‘ We had put a lot of effort into the project before the theatre was bombed . |
| 28 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 29 | We had learnt a lot , used caution and prudence , and contended with the usual rigours of the mountains and the cold . |
| 30 | We had learned a lot about God and ourselves and met new friends . |