Example sentences of "plenty [prep] [n mass] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were several weights over 5 lb and it was nice to see plenty of fish caught for a change . |
| 2 | There were plenty of fish to eat in Egypt , and fruit and vegetables — and no shortage of water . |
| 3 | Plenty of staff means impeccably maintained dinghies . |
| 4 | The next two days were fairly similar with plenty of carp falling to boilies , many of these good doubles and a fair head of nice koies of varying colours amongst them . |
| 5 | Getting busted can lose you your job and wreck chances of future work — yet most of us know plenty of people staggering into work pissed and no mention is made . |
| 6 | Getting busted can lose you your job and wreck chances of future work — yet most of us know plenty of people staggering into work pissed and no mention is made . |
| 7 | W. S. I 've let plenty of people go . |
| 8 | But plenty of people thought it the height of irresponsibility to allocate £11 million to having a fling . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , plenty of people know things , ’ says Phil , and sighs . |
| 10 | ‘ Probably plenty of people know where she is . |
| 11 | THE recession of 1980–81 was the worst anybody in the engineering business had seen ; now plenty of people think the current recession is causing still more grief . |
| 12 | Yet , says Small , plenty of people emerged to help the paper . |
| 13 | Obviously plenty of people find it more interesting than anything breakfast TV has to offer . |
| 14 | Plenty of people want new babies . ’ |
| 15 | Plenty of people turned up , including Mark Lennox Boyd , one of the influential and able new generation of Conservatives , and MP for ITE Merlewood , the Father of the House , John Parker , who has been campaigning on the environment and forestry since 1935 , and a Green troika of David Clark , Opposition spokesman on environment , Peter Hardy , author of a book on badgers , and chairman of the Council of Europe Agricultural Committee , and me . |
| 16 | Though the moguls had gone , there were still plenty of people left from the old school to lay down some pretty awful accusations . |
| 17 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 18 | On a busy main road with plenty of people walking around , the curfew will be extended to 1.30am . |
| 19 | He says there will be plenty of people waiting to talk to her . |
| 20 | There 'll be plenty of people needing taxis on a Friday night . |
| 21 | Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , plenty of people do n't : says Barratt . |