Example sentences of "we do [verb] a lot " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Erm y you get a lot of well we did get a lot of verbal abuse from the young the youngsters .
5 We we we did get a lot of phone calls complaining about erm loud reggae type music from that area .
6 But we did have a lot of fun . ’
7 We do do a lot of things but do n't go it on our own ; work as a department . ’
8 We do show a lot of strong women artists — Nicola Hicks , Amanda Faulkner , Carole Hodgson , Glenys Barton , Lucy Jones — so maybe they do find it slightly easier to approach me .
9 But of course if you 're looking at the American market , I mean the opportunities if you 're in the States are tremendous , so we do face a lot of competition .
10 Are you comfortable with videos because we do hear a lot of artists who are not comfortable on video .
11 Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded
12 One of the things I like most about Julia is the fact that she 's very different from me ; I like our dissimilarities more than our similarities , although we do share a lot .
13 ‘ We do not have too many Woosnams , ’ said Mr Schofield , ‘ but we do have a lot of Fehertys and Montgomeries and for them to have survived one of the greatest tests is testimony to how strong we are becoming . ’
14 We do have a lot of data on that banking colossus .
15 Because it ca , most , we do lose a lot of money on carriage forwards .
16 We do get a lot of mice up here , you see . ’
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