Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use sales jargon , the BlowerVac has a very high perceived value , meaning it looks as if you are getting a lot of machine for your £120 . |
| 2 | GRAEME SOUNESS ( Spurs , Middlesbrough , Liverpool , Sampdoria , Rangers and Scotland — 1970-91 ) : ‘ I 've got a lot of admiration for him because he was a very passionate player and he looked after other players as well . |
| 3 | ‘ I have a lot of admiration for him . |
| 4 | What I have made are very simple frocks from mattress ticking , which leave a lot of scope for you , anyway you will enjoy playing about with them . ’ |
| 5 | PLAYER : Between " just deserts " and " tragic irony " we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent . |
| 6 | I 'm 32 and I get a lot of shit for it . |
| 7 | I did n't have a lot of affection for her , but I would n't wish such a fate on my worst enemy . |
| 8 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 11 | And Mum got a lot of money for her suite . |
| 12 | It 's a lot of money for what we 're doing . |
| 13 | A lot of money for what we 've got |
| 14 | Although it was only about two shillings I think it was a lot of money for her you know . |
| 15 | Either way , it 's a shocking lot of money for something which never began to live up to its pre-launch hype . |
| 16 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not that I was worried about , it was just the money , it 's a lot of money for something that , was an idea a couple of months ago . |
| 18 | And it becomes number one , and it makes a lot of money for everybody and it makes everybody hum and it makes everybody toe tap |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | He knows better than that , and anyway he is rumoured to be paying the Italian genius a lot of money for his one-box design vision that forms part of BMW 's long-rumoured MPV programme . |
| 26 | I could n't tell you what , but they collected quite a lot of money for us and er , and er , er , they were holding things there , er people were holding boxes at the bottom of the gate like and er |
| 27 | but if you 're going to pay a lot of money for your take away |
| 28 | The chemical industry receives a lot of criticism for its impact on the environment — but the benefits of the industry are rarely praised . |
| 29 | So I I 'm not holding out a lot of hope for it . |
| 30 | Right , but what needs to happen is if we continue like this we 're gon na be re-inventing the wheel every year and making a lot of work for yourselves . |