Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Basically I use a lot of different hostas and the alchemillas because the lovely bold shape of the hosta leaves goes with the finer stems of alchemilla . |
| 2 | ‘ Obviously I have a lot more information on some than others , who may just appear as names and addresses . |
| 3 | so I had a lot of contacts and I enjoyed it . |
| 4 | I had a very very hard time just to look after my ill daughter , and I was trying to get help from everybody , but er I had a tremendous help er the neighbours were very good with me , the relations , my husband 's friends at work , er and er my own sisters and my brothers and their wives and my , my mum and dad , so I had a lot of support from everybody . |
| 5 | That 's how she wants it so I done a lot . |
| 6 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 7 | I think , a lot of it , you know I was burning a bit so I think a lot of it was sort of it thinking about that blooming boiler . |
| 8 | I spend I spend a lot of time with them so I spend a lot talking to them . |
| 9 | I 'm opening my own business so I need a lot of money |
| 10 | Probably some degree of oddness is an inescapable penalty for calling an unestablished unit into service ; this abnormality may be very slight , as in A large novel fell on my head , or it may be considerable , as in I received a lot of kindness from him — would you like to try a bottle ? : |
| 11 | so she does a lot of flower arrangements and that privately |
| 12 | Her taste for light food has increased with age and so she cooks a lot with vegetables ( which she also likes for their strong colours ) , although supplies of fresh produce are sometimes limited in North Wales . |
| 13 | So you had a lot of practice adding there . |
| 14 | So you seem a lot better |
| 15 | yeah , yeah , you do n't get the sort of , when your speaker 's on loud you get a lot of sound coming out the back |
| 16 | Mother had a lot of good words too , I must say , but er it was him we learnt a lot of wor And granny especially you learned a lot of words of hers . |
| 17 | Well obviously it 's er really hard-going when it 's you 're own people from your own station , er very er close station and obviously we know a lot of people er who have been involved in the accident , but the moral of the men is excellent . |
| 18 | Myers willingly admits to being a media junkie : ‘ We had a lot of teacher strikes in Canada so we had a lot of time to hang out , more time than sense . |
| 19 | So we had a lot of waste on them . |
| 20 | So we put a lot of food and drink on the boat , and the next morning , we waited for my master and his friends . |
| 21 | Paul Jukes , general manager of Owen Owen , said : ‘ As with everybody else we did not open until 3pm and so we lost a lot of trade . ’ |
| 22 | For a lot of melodies and solos , we had to really develop the guitar parts because there are no vocals , and so we rented a lot of stuff from a place in Los Angeles called Andy Bruaer Rentals and he 's got an amazing selection of amps . |
| 23 | So we have a lot of ex-miners . |
| 24 | But we wanted this album to be right , so we took our time , organised it all carefully , waited until Dave was available , and together we put a lot of thought and effort into it … ’ |
| 25 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 26 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 27 | People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure . |
| 28 | So they devised a lot of things themselves to give them a a a helping hand . |
| 29 | So they ask a lot of schools . |
| 30 | Together they have a lot of money , so land values are high in most parts of the country . |