Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun pl] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be a lot of faces I had not noticed in the original team . |
| 2 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 3 | lot of times I 've , you know , thinking sort of is sh |
| 4 | A lot of times I play the guy who knows what to do , and that 's not really me . |
| 5 | I know , but I mean like I 've got a lot of bollocks I 've some bollocks on it about erm er and shit like that . |
| 6 | ‘ But she 's very like a lot of women I know , who have scarves knotted on their shoulders , and who know the difference between collagen and silicone , and who kiss Jasper Conran at parties . ’ |
| 7 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 8 | I felt as if someone had stuck a knife into me — I started to hate Africa then and I went on hating it — I began to hate a lot of things I had n't minded before , when I was happy . |
| 9 | When I took over there were a lot of things I felt needed to be dealt with . |
| 10 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | Well it 's it , it 's very much like , you know , a lot of things I 've come across in everyday language where , where people , I do n't know , er friends and relatives have found out that somebody 's been gay , oh well I never thought it of him , he seemed like such a nice person as well |
| 12 | Could you come with men There are a lot of things I want to talk about , and it would be easier in my office , where I 've got maps and things . " |
| 13 | There 's a lot of things I want to show you . |
| 14 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I do n't understand , ’ Matilda said to her . |
| 16 | There 's a thing , because there are a terrible lot of things I do n't like at all of Picasso 's for instance , his versions of ‘ Las Meniñas ’ . |
| 17 | He has a voracious intelligence which he dismisses as ‘ just a curious mind , but limited because of a lot of things I do n't care for . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all been very interesting and I 've learned quite a lot of things I did n't know before . |
| 19 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 20 | Not because she does n't approve of me ( few mothers do ) , but she was bound to have a lot of questions I had no intention of answering . |
| 21 | Lastly , John , one of the observations I would make is that a lot of astronomers I know are people who seem to have quite strong religious convictions . |
| 22 | ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said . |
| 23 | We 're gon na make it safe cos when you 're the door you can actually walk in the door and and get clobbered with a lot of bales I feel so we 're gon na make that safe . |
| 24 | But that is true of a lot of subjects I did at O level . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 26 | And with most with a lot of calculators I mean you Do n't try it unless you really know your calculator and know how it works , you can just keep pressing equals , |