Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun sg] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm 32 and I get a lot of shit for it . |
| 2 | we had a lot of affection for it really and , I mean we 've had it so long and it was the first furniture we had when we married |
| 3 | ‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary . |
| 4 | Erm if the car has done a lot of mileage , will you get a lot of money for it or will you get less money ? |
| 5 | I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it . |
| 6 | Whether or not Crosland actually shared this view of the universities it is possible , as Carswell points out , to deduce from Crosland 's 1965 Woolwich speech that the universities were somehow ‘ placed in isolation , seeking after truth , persuing learning for its own sake , and getting a lot of money for it ’ . |
| 7 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 8 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 9 | So I I 'm not holding out a lot of hope for it . |
| 10 | If you leave a complicated estate with lots of bits here there and everywhere and your affairs in mess and the solicitor 's got to sort out he 's going to have to do a lot of work for it . |
| 11 | Now Andy , he gets a nice two hundred and fifty thousand a year , he does do a lot of work for it though |
| 12 | She gives me a lot of stick for it . |
| 13 | It would in fact be a pretty salient idea , since we would have a lot of use for it , on many unhappy occasions . |