Example sentences of "he [verb] a lot [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 2 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 3 | But he had married a greengrocer — a much younger woman — and ‘ retired early ’ partly to help her : ‘ he worked a lot in the house . |
| 4 | He 's pretty young — only about my age , and he paints a lot of the walls in the house — you know , with felt pens and spray cans and that . |
| 5 | ‘ Though he took a lot at the ten o'clock feed . ’ |
| 6 | And we just , he knew a lot of the , he was interested in si singing and he just knew the words and and just sang round about the house . |
| 7 | He did a lot for the children , warmed and warming in his need to hold and touch them . |
| 8 | Look at what happened with Jim Harvey he did a lot for the club and Ian Muir was severely punished for an incident aimed at John King . |
| 9 | He removed a lot of the stones , and then John poured the stones he made him |
| 10 | ‘ His junior record was only fair ’ , recalls Gottfried , ‘ but he had a lot of the tools for the job and he was willing to learn and to put in the time . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , he does a lot of the manufacturing for us . |
| 12 | He slept a lot of the time , either in bed or sprawled in the most comfortable chair in the kitchen and snoring loudly with his mouth open . |
| 13 | He slept a lot of the Sunday and Monday and , when awake , just mooched about his bed-sitter in the gloom that inevitably followed moments of high excitement . |
| 14 | The thing is , he says he knows a lot about the world , he knows what men are like , he says he 's just worried for me . |
| 15 | Not rich — few pig farmers are , he tells me — but he knows a lot of the farming community . |