Example sentences of "and [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Angel Clare — he 's the one who 's learning milking — he 's a parson 's son and thinks a lot and does n't notice girls . |
| 2 | ‘ She has awful headaches and cries a lot , and I find this very hard to cope with — that 's the greatest strain on me . ’ |
| 3 | Then he saw a policeman near him , so he began to sing and shout and make a lot of noise . |
| 4 | Soapy began to sing and shout and make a lot of noise . |
| 5 | The male babies were encouraged to explore , to bang things and make a lot of noise and generally be more active . |
| 6 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 7 | The same firm framed and sold a lot of Mitchell 's paintings . |
| 8 | And made a lot of money , too . |
| 9 | I 'm only in this business for my own enjoyment , yet because we 've been successful and made a lot of money people automatically assume I 'm a raving Conservative and resent.my criticisms . |
| 10 | I was Secretary of the miner 's support group that was set up in Blaenau during the year long miner 's s strike where we collected a lot of food and twinned with a town down in South Wales and made a lot of new friends . |
| 11 | They feel you have to endure great anxiety and suffer a lot and of course while you 're doing that , you do n't get the work done . ’ |
| 12 | I have windows broken at regular intervals and suffer a lot of abuse and foul language when I ask them to move . |
| 13 | I am a very busy man who has to go and earn a lot of money in the private hospital next door . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And gain a lot , too , ’ Fritz said , with a warmth glowing beyond loyalty . |
| 15 | She grew up into a grand ewe and produced a lot of lambs for us . |
| 16 | Like me , he 's fond of his food and drinks a lot . |
| 17 | Big people who weigh a lot and eat a lot tend to shed weight very easily and speedily when they start cutting down on calorie intake . |
| 18 | I know for a fact I 'm not cos all I 've done all week is sit on my bum and watch telly and eat a lot . |
| 19 | Now he 's filled out and got a lot stronger , ’ says McNally . |
| 20 | He was n't quiet on that and got a lot of questions right . |
| 21 | I think you 've been a lot more conscientious and got a lot er , potentially a lot more out of it . |
| 22 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 23 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 24 | Hershelle Gibbs , who is a fine athlete and has a lot of cricketing potential . |
| 25 | Network File System can provide only ‘ weak clustering ’ , while the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment is ‘ a very large chunk of code not fully shaken out ’ , according to Fitzgerald , and has a lot of baggage that does n't apply to clustering , ‘ when you have SQL access right there ’ . |
| 26 | Pebble Island is situated off the north shores of West Falkland , and has a lot to offer the birdwatcher : large colonies of penguins , king cormorants and other cliff- and shore-nesting species including several pairs of the superb red-backed hawk . |
| 27 | Ah , so the the child 's mind is uncluttered , it 's more easily able to erm , observe things , take in things , learn things , and has a lot of advantages over us older , us adults . |
| 28 | Someone else might realize : ‘ I dream and idealize a lot , because I was left so much to my own company . ’ |
| 29 | It is easy to see why Elizabeth feels this way , and needs a lot of tact and patience to cope with what she perceives as her husband 's unreasonable childishness . |
| 30 | Herbivores typically have very long guts containing various kinds of fermenting bacteria , since grass is a poor-quality food and needs a lot of digesting . |