Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 2 | I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on |
| 3 | The same firm framed and sold a lot of Mitchell 's paintings . |
| 4 | And made a lot of money , too . |
| 5 | I 'm only in this business for my own enjoyment , yet because we 've been successful and made a lot of money people automatically assume I 'm a raving Conservative and resent.my criticisms . |
| 6 | I was Secretary of the miner 's support group that was set up in Blaenau during the year long miner 's s strike where we collected a lot of food and twinned with a town down in South Wales and made a lot of new friends . |
| 7 | She grew up into a grand ewe and produced a lot of lambs for us . |
| 8 | Now he 's filled out and got a lot stronger , ’ says McNally . |
| 9 | He was n't quiet on that and got a lot of questions right . |
| 10 | I think you 've been a lot more conscientious and got a lot er , potentially a lot more out of it . |
| 11 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 12 | And do you know father used to now where they used to and he used to go and caught a lot of them . |
| 13 | The notes were scribbled in a no-less motley variety of different-coloured pens ( ball , felt and micro-liner ) and used a lot of abbreviations and compressions : H crshd twn carige & tr ? |
| 14 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 15 | So at the beginning of 1990 , Mike Rex — on secondment from AECI — and chemical engineering student Joe Masih started charting the two — hourly process operator analyses and found a lot of variation . |
| 16 | As he lay , with my arms wrapped around his body , I brought down my head hard on his face , and drew a lot of blood from him . |
| 17 | The prototype Caribou first flower on July 30 , 1958 and attracted a lot of interest , including the US Army who ordered the type initially as the CV-2 and later the C-7 , the type seeing service in Vietnam . |
| 18 | Smallfry had forgotten to warn him because he had done so many bad things and caused a lot of trouble . |
| 19 | They did some dreadful damage and caused a lot of loss of life . |
| 20 | He would not listen to her instructions and caused a lot of damage by climbing on furniture and shelves , banging things with his toys , knocking down displays in shops , and so on . |
| 21 | ‘ It really shattered her as a person and caused a lot of problems in her life . |
| 22 | A fine lot of 46 four-year-old prime Highland bullocks were shipped from Port Ellen by Peter Carmichael from Ballymonie and caused a lot of trouble . |
| 23 | Now that was such a big thing and caused a lot of excitement . |
| 24 | It was somehow better than making her own suppositions , which seemed to take an awful amount of energy and caused a lot of stress . |
| 25 | I always put it off and played a lot of sport at high school instead , until I hurt my knee really badly . |
| 26 | Weather gets nastier here — my week in 21–28 October was warm and wet , so I lazed and read and ate — read a lot and ate a lot which , given the state of the bathroom scales , enriched both mind and body ( HA HA ) so I have been trying to eat and drink less . |
| 27 | We have got this far and ignored a lot of work regarding issues of land rent and of the nature of capital 's relation with land as part of a general accumulation process . |
| 28 | I 've had a wonderful day and learnt a lot here |
| 29 | But manager Derek Brownbill explained : ‘ We rolled our sleeves up in the second half and showed a lot of character . |
| 30 | ‘ I woke up and heard a lot of laughter , ’ said Ollie . |