Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | So with your pennies and her pennies I think we should all make a lot of money for Save The Children , do n't you ? |
| 2 | The firm , System 6 , apparently got a lot of the work done by an engineering contingent fresh out of the Russian Academy of Science . |
| 3 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 4 | This action was very strange because Andries not only attracted a lot of attention to himself by the manner of his purchase but also the dinghy had a serial number on it which made it instantly traceable . |
| 5 | His lady-love obviously cares a lot about him . |
| 6 | Colbert had an ego robust enough to stand a lot of punishment . |
| 7 | This man Gennaro obviously has a lot of influence even among the less desirable characters in this city , or at least in this part of it . |
| 8 | Er it obviously has a lot in common with other inner city areas . |
| 9 | The latter criteria obviously has a lot to do with the type of printer that you choose , but several notation programs give a printout that leaves much to be desired — even when the printer is a top of the range laser . |
| 10 | The hot garlic butter sauce poured over the snails obviously has a lot to do with the success of the dish , but to those who say that that is all you taste I have always protested that the soft , salty flesh of the snail is very much part of the enjoyment . |
| 11 | Tae kwon do is the Korean art of self-defence and Britain 's rather good at it , so expect a lot of that on your screens . |
| 12 | As 9 is one that obviously needs a lot of work and a lot of thought on it . |
| 13 | You can do much of the remaining internal work yourself , not only saving a lot of money on labour charges , but a considerable sum in VAT at the current rate of 17.5% . |
| 14 | W we have obviously collected a lot of data er from the audit and today I 'm presenting the initial er early result . |
| 15 | The humour is clever — daft but not really slap-stick — and the writers obviously put a lot of time into making sure it works . |
| 16 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 17 | So that 's that 's really what happened , and it was n't until eighteen sixty , or eighteen fifty eight , fifty nine in time , that the Railway directors agreed to reopen this branch line , as they 'd been basically promised a lot more traffic . |
| 18 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
| 19 | It 's it 's something I 've obviously thought a lot about . |
| 20 | We 've all got a lot to lose : our jobs , friends , respect and our safety . |
| 21 | ‘ You obviously know a lot of people in the trade . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You obviously know a lot about writing , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 23 | Yet nobody knows how people will react if some suddenly get a lot richer and some a lot poorer . |
| 24 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 25 | However , you should take care not to risk overloading the electrical wiring in the process , and you should certainly not attempt to use photoflood bulbs in ordinary domestic fittings as they not only draw a lot of current but they also run very hot and could possibly cause a fire . |
| 26 | Babies given this treatment apparently talk a lot earlier than those who have n't been . |
| 27 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 28 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 29 | He had obviously spent a lot of money on them and he felt cheated . |
| 30 | The children had obviously spent a lot of time on them . ’ |