Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 2 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 3 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 4 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll hope to see you there a lot . |
| 6 | Ten minutes spent in this way could well save you quite a lot of time in the long run . |
| 7 | Some food names tell you quite a lot about what 's in the food , provided you know a lot about food law ! |
| 8 | This is why it does throw you quite a lot if another actor forgets his move , because it churns up in your brain the sequences you 've worked out and are expecting . ‘ |
| 9 | It 's just that your father and I … well , we thought he was a very pleasant young man , and he seemed to like you quite a lot . ’ |
| 10 | But his interests appear to remain firmly with the purchasers ' ‘ needs ’ — and pockets — as he advises : ‘ If you want to buy a girl from one of the escort firms it will cost you quite a lot . |
| 11 | Well it it tells you quite a lot , but it does n't actually mention that bit . |
| 12 | Must have cost you quite a lot to buy them each a drink . |
| 13 | They like a lot of meat |
| 14 | I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months . |
| 15 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 16 | ‘ Annie 's been chatting to him quite a lot , lately . |
| 17 | She admitted then she might have liked him quite a lot . |
| 18 | ‘ I like him quite a lot . ’ |
| 19 | Erm but dad visits him quite a lot . |
| 20 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 21 | They did pressure me quite a lot about how I looked , but I never gave in to their attempts to convert me to pink ; I wanted to look different , and in the main I was quite happy with my image . |
| 22 | I was missing the warmth of the people , although my two years in the ‘ east ’ gave me quite a lot of material which you will discover in the following pages . |
| 23 | I knit with a Brother 830 and enjoy it very much , I also look forward to your magazine each month which helps me quite a lot . |
| 24 | I used to go to him and say , ‘ Bill , please try and get them to do this ’ , and he did fight for me quite a lot , but it was an uphill struggle all the way . |
| 25 | He told me quite a lot about his experiences during our stay in hospital together . |
| 26 | It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about , |
| 27 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 28 | ‘ But while people think of me perhaps as just a guitar producer who does n't go anywhere near sequencers , I actually use them quite a lot . |
| 29 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 30 | Unlike the mothers of some of the other children , her mother came to see them quite a lot , and she remembers it not being so bad — " once you get used to it , it 's just like your home " . |