Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would tie down a lot of troops and would also give Phnom Penh the opportunity to raise international alarm at the spectre of the return of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 2 | Though he did not dictate , he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said . |
| 3 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 4 | My son is immensely proud of them , and offers the following advice to gardeners worried about their technique : ‘ Growing pretty flowers is easy if you fill your wellies full of muddy stuff and squish it down a lot . ’ |
| 5 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 6 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 7 | On stage , using radio systems , I find it closes the sound down a lot , which I do n't like . |
| 8 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 9 | The pair have tracked down a lot of information about the Pagefield Ironworks including some of the original draughtsmen 's drawings . |
| 10 | Although she felt she had settled down a lot since her last release from prison , she was still having difficulties coping with the day-to-day strain and isolation of being a single parent . |
| 11 | It 's tied us down a lot . |
| 12 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 13 | And the Germans have calmed down a lot , you 've got to admit that . |
| 14 | I was lying on my back , I was working my legs up and down a lot , |
| 15 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 16 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 17 | It seems to be particularly sensitive to the type of graphics card in use and 256 colour mode often slows it down a lot . |
| 18 | And I mean I think that if it was spread more I mean if if if people locally gave more to bereaved in their own areas , I mean it would go down a lot more good there . |
| 19 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 20 | You see this post standing up here now we 've got down a lot lower this time , in fact , I think , it 's the same post . |
| 21 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 22 | Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes . |
| 23 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 24 | ‘ You have to walk up and down a lot , ’ smiled Neville . |
| 25 | By the time it gets to the sea then it 's slowed down a lot , it 's usually carrying very fine silt , |
| 26 | I 'm me and Colin are settling down a lot compared to what we were five year ago . |
| 27 | It had gone down a lot though . |
| 28 | But it 's gone down a lot . |
| 29 | I would have slowed down a lot more than that . |
| 30 | Yeah so when people are saying , Well simple harmonic motion or erm you know throwing a stone up and down that sort of thing roughly is n't it sort of one of them goes up and down a lot like that one of them just goes up once and down same equation . |