Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [n mass] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dish , suitable for a light lunch or supper , needs only freshly cooked vegetables or a salad of endive to accompany it . |
| 2 | Where most instructions had to be given verbally , you needed a lot of people to do it . |
| 3 | Tonight , not an easy word to spell I mean you might think it is but a lot of people spell it incorrectly . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of people said it could n't be done , but we did it . ’ |
| 5 | Erm and that 's the other thing about having having , sort of , a lot of people thinking it having , having it as a sort of rock club at night they , they regard it as their own , sort of thing |
| 6 | Not a lot of people played it . |
| 7 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 8 | for your own consumption but there was a lot of people doing it as , as erm illicitly . |
| 9 | If , er if I was to further refine that I would argue quite strongly that a lot of people see it as their duty to vote in general elections mm ? |
| 10 | Fromentin and Gerome see the soil of the South as colourless , and a lot of people see it like that . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of people think it is the Secretary of State 's problem to provide the funding . |
| 12 | I must point out about is n't just the Guild a lot of people think it is but it is a good focal point to find out what 's going on and meet people . |
| 13 | A lot of people leave it in |
| 14 | A lot of people leave it in there to accrue to pay tax or whatever . |
| 15 | A lot of people do it overnight |
| 16 | A lot of people do it that way . ’ |
| 17 | So try twelve pennies and find all the numbers that will multiply together to make twelve and one you mentioned earlier which was very good cos a lot of people forget it was just twelve ones or one twelve . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of people liked it and some did n't , though the press was real kind about it . |
| 19 | A lot of people dismiss it out of hand . |
| 20 | Where has been an escalation of aggression or at any time , having regard to these Guidelines , a member of staff considers it appropriate , there should be an internal review of a resident 's progress . |
| 21 | So , so that 's er really a way of means testing it er more painlessly ? |
| 22 | ‘ He taught me that is it very hard to make a profit but very easy to let a bunch of people spend it . |