Example sentences of "lot of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was very dark , and there were a lot of clouds in the sky .
2 The investigation was a lot of nonsense at the end . ’
3 Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another .
4 It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press .
5 ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said .
6 I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time .
7 and that er , you know , has lead to a lot of misery in some cases , er , also I mean there 's question of viability of our own scheme and I er , think er you know , er there are a number of questions which I as a lay-man would like to be , you know , I think the seminar is probably the right to do that .
8 ‘ There are a lot of musicians in Seattle and every one of them looks up to Jimi Hendrix .
9 He does he does ma a lot of manufacture for Lynwoods .
10 They chopped a lot of cable into one inch pieces you see and just gave a bit of this out .
11 Twenty-fifth August — a lot of excitement around the farm .
12 There were sirens along the road below and a lot of excitement around the stationary train .
13 Yes , not a lot of mountains at Gloucester Green , I must say .
14 Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days .
15 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 .
16 Given that it is unobtrusive though , and it is possible to obtain a very concise response to a query , rather than having to read through quite a lot of text before finding the required information , it will at the very least save some time .
17 Siward said , ‘ I can see the Normans already in line , and a lot of foot behind the banners and awnings . ’
18 Here in America I perform a lot in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and I probably make more money today than I ever did when I was selling a lot of records as a teenage idol .
19 He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’
20 ‘ There 's been a lot of damage to the ground here .
21 A full survey by Southern Science has revealed that there is a lot of damage to the pond lining and a dangerously deep sediment in the centre which contained a few dead fish and some frog spawn , although there is very little oxygen left in the pond .
22 If we used tractors on here continually pulling out timber , it would cause a lot of damage to the ground structure and would reduce the number of flowers .
23 Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church .
24 We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals .
25 The bombardment destroyed our first system , of course , and there seem to have been a lot of gas shells landing amongst our gunners — those that were n't killed — and they say the Hun did a lot of damage with his trench mortars and those awful Minenwerfers .
26 Erm as you can see it 's er had quite a lot of damage on it since we actually came back but er it 's been a very very trustworthy er propeller and engine .
27 Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage .
28 That 's going to do a lot of damage in a soup bowl the size of Wembley stadium , I do n't think .
29 Aristotle called the kings ‘ hereditary generals ’ and an incompetent or even average king could do a lot of damage in a short while — like Kleombrotos who lost the decisive battle of Leuktra in 371 but was not catastrophically inept .
30 Luis Vargas , an Archuar Indian , said that Indians no longer wanted British Gas on their land and were no longer prepared to negotiate with the company , " British Gas has done a lot of damage in our forest " he said .
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