Example sentences of "a lot [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My confidence came back a lot towards the end of the season . |
| 2 | Once Arcady came into sight , Ari felt she had learnt a lot during the past few days , irreplaceably important lessons . |
| 3 | We seemed to get on awfully well on the court , and we laughed together a lot during the game . |
| 4 | Because of its major 3rd ( as opposed to the conventional ♭3 found in a normal phrygian mode ) this scale has a very Spanish/Classical flavour and can be heard quite a lot during the solos on the track Surfing With The Alien . |
| 5 | He had begun to drink a lot during the day as he had learned to go to the fridge and help himself to prepared squash . |
| 6 | Well I reckon if we practise a lot during the holidays if you play with the pennies and things and think about the spellings and try you know you do n't have to read through the whole dictionary just learn some |
| 7 | ‘ I 've learnt a lot during the time we 've been apart , Julius . |
| 8 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 9 | I found my knowledge of pattern making helped a lot with the knitting machine concept . |
| 10 | I 'm sure she helps you a lot with the housework , Marilla . ’ |
| 11 | He used to stay a lot with the Broughs at Balnamenoch that was further down the glen . |
| 12 | ‘ No , but I 've worked a lot with the police . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 15 | I understand you 've been socializing quite a lot with the Italians over the last twenty four hours or so . |
| 16 | I think we tend to eat much faster , if you like , and , and to take more snacks , and I think it 's interesting that the rise of the use of a coffee table ties in a lot with the rise of people having televisions in their front rooms , because introducing the television made all kinds of changes into , just the way people arrange their chairs , not centring them round the fire any more , and a coffee table 's a very neat addition to that kind of arrangement . |
| 17 | Theoretically it costs Christie 's from around £200 to pass a lot through the sale room , from its arrival at the front desk to its departure at the delivery room ( assuming it sold ) . |
| 18 | George takes time to learn to cope with Lennie and matures a lot through the experience . |
| 19 | Barnes added : ‘ We have not solved the mystery of unlocking their defence , but it is something the management will discuss a lot over the next few days . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 've shared a lot over the years . |
| 21 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 22 | Your continuous improvement in in the factory a lot over the years . |
| 23 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 've changed a lot over the past four years , ’ she retorted . |
| 25 | The New Internationalist has changed a lot over the years . |
| 26 | Watford have improved a lot over the past few weeks . |
| 27 | I was learning a lot over the period of making mistakes as you can imagine . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've noticed the players have perked up a lot since the first leg in Stuttgart . |
| 29 | Lill on ASV on the other hand interprets this as a clearly defined slower central section which , to my ears at least , makes a great deal more musical sense — this is backed up by a comparison of the overall timings ; Gavrilov knocks a whole minute off Lill 's 7′53″ , which is quite a lot considering the brevity of this sonata . |
| 30 | But i like it is I mean it 's quite a lot considering the money markets and stuff . |