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

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1 It was very dark , and there were a lot of clouds in the sky .
2 I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time .
3 ‘ There are a lot of musicians in Seattle and every one of them looks up to Jimi Hendrix .
4 Yes , not a lot of mountains at Gloucester Green , I must say .
5 Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days .
6 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 .
7 After all , there are a lot of divisions in the police — they do n't all wear uniforms and some do n't even shave .
8 When the lawyer representing British Caledonian Airways , who were opposing Virgin 's application , remarked that Virgin would need ‘ a lot of groups on Top of the Pops ' to afford to run an airline , Branson promptly retorted that Virgin 's £11.4m profits in 1983 were actually more than twice those of British Caledonian .
9 a lot of groups of people so we we print them on the ratio of three to one .
10 ‘ There are a lot of groups about who offer their services virtually free of charge , and so even cost-wise we do n't have to find too much money out of the amenity fund , it 's absolutely marvellous . ’
11 ‘ A lot of groups from Manchester are more intelligent than from other places . ’
12 What I was going to say yeah I 've been involved in a lot of videos over recent years and erm central er and there 's a freelance budget which a caravan for central they usually charge about three or four thousand pounds depending on how long the video is
13 There were a lot of Indians like that , so used to the cycle of hurt and deadening that it was a snowballing addiction .
14 So Margot got off the bus and the policeman says , now you have to really vigilant today Margot there 's a lot of bombs in Lisburn Right !
15 Er there was a lot of thefts from cars .
16 There 's a lot of thefts from cars .
17 I felt even worse after I transferred a lot of kilocreds to Frejjis bank as a down payment .
18 In a larger building , like that in which I work , I would have to store a lot of instructions of the above kind in order to find my way about .
19 ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class .
20 It does n't er really sort of er er in a sense prevent er or mitigate against a lot of a lot of developments in the countryside .
21 He 's got all sorts of schemes a lot of schemes in the pipeline .
22 this week again there 's a lot of repeats in it , and he said other people that send adverts in ca n't even get er a look in , they do n't , anyway that , after he wrote the letter it was in the following week .
23 There are a lot of ducks on the pond .
24 ‘ There 's a lot of ducks over there by the stream , ’ she said .
25 I know I see a lot of pigeons in my garden , but erm racing pigeons , erm it 's a very , very big industry .
26 MR Lamont gets full marks for presentation but overall it wo n't change a lot of projections for recovery .
27 What , a lot of it 's adverts mind lot of adverts in there
28 I figured there were a whole lot of answers inside that building and I figured that like or not there had to be a back entrance to it somewhere .
29 For one thing , these gross categories seem to be the backdrop to a lot of discussions about individual behaviour and personality traits .
30 Well a lot , I found a lot of blokes in the infantry they were so scared of some of the officers and I
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