Example sentences of "plenty [prep] [n mass] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 2 | But there are plenty of people who do n't agree ; you can find them on the autobahns of Germany , where very fast driving is the norm . |
| 3 | There were , of course , plenty of people who did not view catching a plane at the shriek of dawn , fighting for a patch of sand big enough to spread a handkerchief , suffering appalling hangovers from over-indulgence in Spanish ‘ champagne ’ , and arriving home burnt to a painful scarlet wearing a ridiculous hat and clutching a straw donkey too big to stand on the television , as travel . |
| 4 | And there are plenty of people who have spoken here tonight have substantiated that ! |
| 5 | There are plenty of people who have super-efficient secretaries , but the majority of us can only dream of having someone like that to put our working lives in order . |
| 6 | Oh , there are plenty of people who want to eat , but no-one has the money to pay . |
| 7 | But while there are plenty of people who want to look at the car , what sort of person would actualy want to buy it ? |
| 8 | I 'm , I 'm sure there 's plenty of people who want to do nursing and a lot would be for the erm |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure there are plenty of people who enjoy both . ’ |