Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] an [adj] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of creating the formula you 're probably fairly clear about how it works , but several weeks or months later , you 've forgotten an awful lot . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've done an awful lot of work , ’ admitted Faldo at the course where Jack Nicklaus won in 1967 and ‘ 80 . |
| 3 | ‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I 've made an awful lot of cash from the Human League . |
| 4 | It 's getting very very close , and you 've got an awful lot to do . |
| 5 | Kate , you 've got an awful lot to forgive me for , have n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 7 | ‘ As a result , we 've had an awful lot of letters from people saying there 'd been an oversight on their part , ’ says an outwardly cheerful Simpson . |
| 8 | Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot . |
| 9 | Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church . |
| 10 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 11 | Because we 've had we 've spent an awful lot of erm money and time in taking people into the system who say they will have a car when |
| 12 | You 've lost an awful lot of weight |
| 13 | Now that does n't the Kipsigy was just the study of the erm you know it 's a good statistical it 's good hard-hat social science you know with distribution and everything it 's all good stuff , erm they do n't say that , where we do know this is something I have researched myself very carefully , the Australian Aborigines erm we have rich data on this and I 've read an awful lot of it and I compared notes with world authorities like David McKnight and erm erm what 's his name erm Shapiro authority on this , and they agree that er that 's definitely what happens . |
| 14 | I am chickening out cos I do n't feel as if I 've learnt an awful lot . |