Example sentences of "[vb infin] a lot [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 2 | There 's a , you could do a lot worse things that play football ! |
| 3 | It made him feel a lot better . |
| 4 | But would n't you feel a lot better if you knew that you 'd kicked him back — and that he knew it too ? |
| 5 | She would probably feel a lot better for having done so too . |
| 6 | You 'll feel a lot better . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 'd make me feel a lot better , ’ said Grimma . |
| 8 | Though I still felt drunk , my stomach ached and my throat felt like a couple of hedgehogs had had a fight in it , I did feel a lot better . |
| 9 | She stretched but did n't feel a lot better for her siesta . |
| 10 | ‘ And since you are , you 'll feel a lot better if you get a good night 's rest , ’ he said briskly . |
| 11 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 12 | Keep long hair off your face during the day — you 'll feel a lot cooler . |
| 13 | " Having a baby makes me feel a lot older and more mature . |
| 14 | ‘ Gran would feel a lot happier if you paid her a visit . |
| 15 | The picture will become a lot clearer by Saturday night . |
| 16 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |
| 17 | We want to really look a lot slimmer . |
| 18 | Must be pleased , as was Ken Vasey we spoke to earlier , that you did n't concede a goal for the second game in succession , and the defence does look a lot tighter does n't it ? |
| 19 | The economy will look a lot fitter , but it will not emerge from the downturn without injury . |
| 20 | The story was n't exactly all over the front page , but it started there with photographs of Mercer and Bambi and continued inside , with a glamorous back-lit formal shot of Xanthe , which made her look a lot older than her published age , fifteen . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course it makes you look a lot older , ’ he added thoughtfully . |
| 22 | That rudder movement equals braking and so it 's slowing you down , it may look impressive being heeled over like this but I 'd sail a lot faster if the boat were flat . |
| 23 | I think it will work a lot better once we get boxes basically |
| 24 | The mass of estuaries and inlets that make up the coastline mean an oil spill would cover a lot bigger area . |
| 25 | Anyway , you 'll say it 's none of my business , but I can tell you , you 'll go further and fare a lot worse . |
| 26 | but if you think about it , there is the hard ones can have a lot better ca n't they , I mean the only thing that 'll actually harm them is that if you get poked in the eye or something and it shatters the lens cos they are actually |
| 27 | But an alto would go a lot lower , would go down probably to an F or a G. |
| 28 | And then hopefully you 'll actually get a lot better . |
| 29 | Yet , as the latest troubles with Olympia & York and the Tokyo stock market remind us , the recession shows no sign of ending and could get a lot worse unless real interest rates are brought down with a bang — and that means willingness to put the exchange rate mechanism second to domestic monetary policy . |
| 30 | ‘ It will get a lot worse ’ . |