Example sentences of "[art] lot [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.

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1 And I 'll send that to Dick and he 'll fix you 're up and saved them going to the lot of trouble on their own er ground .
2 You 've made a lot of progress on that .
3 Cliftonville manager Frankie Parks put it like this : ‘ There was a lot of frustration on the day but the better side won .
4 Obviously the tones are sharper without DBX but the 238S does seem to generate quite a lot of noise on its own .
5 But that 's another thing sport you get a lot of sport on here
6 Erm as you can see it 's er had quite a lot of damage on it since we actually came back but er it 's been a very very trustworthy er propeller and engine .
7 New Scientist spent a lot of space on US chemical weapons in Europe and on the ethics and value of seal slaughtering .
8 There was a lot of limescale on the bath .
9 Cause you have to put a lot of cream on your face to get the make up off and you do that especially if you 're doing two performances a day it 's an awful lot mess and much you 're putting on your face and you ca n't get it all off
10 As 9 is one that obviously needs a lot of work and a lot of thought on it .
11 Apart from spending a lot of money on the church , they built this house , where once stood a meagre rectory , and called it ‘ Sutton on the Hill Hall ’ .
12 You can do much of the remaining internal work yourself , not only saving a lot of money on labour charges , but a considerable sum in VAT at the current rate of 17.5% .
13 Many dealers have lost a lot of money on stocking BSB systems which they can not now sell .
14 I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up .
15 ‘ We 've spent a lot of money on you , ' ’ they told the animal ‘ 'why are n't you performing ? ' ’ ''Ah , ’ replied the bull , ‘ 'I was only sent here in an advisory capacity . ' ’
16 The vast majority hire boots and skis so you do n't have to spend a lot of money on gear before you find out if skiing is for you .
17 Gloria ( Perez ) , his girlfriend , wins a lot of money on a gameshow she 's spent her whole life practising for , but Billy bets it all on a basketball game .
18 He had obviously spent a lot of money on them and he felt cheated .
19 Technology director of ICL operations Steve Sowery says the company spent a lot of time and will spend a lot of money on positioning the new ICL range .
20 Both television companies are said to be losing a lot of money on baseball .
21 I hear they 're spending a lot of money on promotion . ’
22 DEC , which held the Dutch introduction to its new Alpha machines here , and Hewlett-Packard , had both spent a lot of money on assembling and staffing the stands , and were less than happy with the trickle of visitors descending from the various sessions down onto the show floor .
23 The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow .
24 But if you spend a lot of money on retraining , if you have high government social expenditure , surely that cuts across those who want a strict , anti-inflation policy ?
25 ‘ Mahoney was spending a lot of money on himself .
26 I , er I was gon na spring another type of love because we all spend a lot of money on it , the love of pets of animals
27 We spent a lot of money on MOSS training last year because
28 Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes .
29 spent a lot of money on reflexology to see if it would help her sleep .
30 ‘ She found he 'd drawn out quite a lot of money on Friday , from two building society accounts they 've got .
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