Example sentences of "lot of money [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 2 | Which brought a lot of money into the country . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ We have put an awful lot of money into the site . |
| 4 | All to do with the s I mean th the Dock Commission they claimed a lot of money off the Corporation I think over that cos they |
| 5 | ‘ It will not be satisfactory to have marched a lot of money up the hill , only to march it down again . |
| 6 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 9 | Tbilisi are gambling a lot of money on the outcome of the appeal . |
| 10 | Rover is gambling a lot of money on the market picking up . |
| 11 | Another messenger tells of the death of a lord who gave a lot of money to the church . |
| 12 | One had just won her school colours , and the other had raised a lot of money for the Endowment Fund by collecting empty jam jars . |
| 13 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 14 | Hm , it 's not worth paying a lot of money at the moment , when you get better at it Back pack 's it is , seven ninety nine . |
| 15 | Yeah well I said to Geoff , well I hope Geoff soon gets his money because he owes Geoff a lot of money at the moment ! |
| 16 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 17 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 18 | ’ … told me , ’ said Tessa 's voice hours or minutes later , ‘ that they 've borrowed a lot of money from the bank to do some conversion work in their flat . ’ |
| 19 | They are spending a lot of money in the South West on cleaning up the beaches . |
| 20 | Four fi five and a quarter tax free , you 've got to put an awful lot of money in the building society to get that sort of return have n't you ? |
| 21 | These things matter today — after all , there 's a lot of money in the sport these days ! |
| 22 | I want to have a lot of money in the bank . |
| 23 | He does n't have to work , and he 's got a lot of money in the bank . |
| 24 | he put his business , he , he hired the , a unit , bought a unit and put the business in the unit somewhere er away from the house and they bought a house for one hundred and eighty thousand and she says and I 've got a lot of money in the bank now , so , she says I do n't have to work , but the business they want to sell it , and nobody 's buying |
| 25 | He painted in various styles and passed them off as originals making a lot of money in the process . |
| 26 | If the band spends a lot of money in the venue ( with a big stage extension , an early ‘ get-in ’ to the venue , playing very late , or running up an enormous catering bill ) , all of these costs are paid mainly by the artist . |
| 27 | I thought you know , I did think when they were talking , when the council they were talking about spending a lot of money behind the station |
| 28 | er , thinking of spending a lot of money behind the station and building the supermarket and ploughing it all up , that car park , and then putting the information centre in the old , old |