Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] a lot of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 2 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 3 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 4 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 5 | Oh , yes , Luke whatever you might say , I gathered quite a lot of hard facts from Elise 's diaries . ’ |
| 6 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | And then of course I , I did quite a lot of children 's nursing then , er but also general nursing as well , a bit o a bi some midwifery and er mainly ge general nursing . |
| 8 | And er to me it presented a great opportunity , I I j I won quite a lot of books . |
| 9 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 10 | I earned quite a lot of money though so Oh I was in a really good mood , I woke up this morning in a really good mood , so I kind of danced into work |
| 11 | I said well a lot of them are leaving today . |
| 12 | So I said well a lot of it 's an attitude . |
| 13 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 14 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
| 15 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 16 | She got quite a lot of money . |
| 17 | Instead , she looked up to the ceiling from where she got quite a lot of her inspiration . |
| 18 | But after all , ’ he added , in self-excuse , ‘ you fantasised quite a lot of things about Sergei and me , in the novels . ’ |
| 19 | She did quite a lot of snorting , quite a lot of brittle laughter and a very great deal of what Henry took to be assumed inarticulacy . |
| 20 | Well she did quite a lot of good in the early days did n't she ? |
| 21 | I 'm sorry erm as far as the schools are concerned you had presumably a lot of contact I mean as part of the national curriculum is if if you like is to build contact with the community and the schools . |
| 22 | We got , we got quite a lot of meat |
| 23 | And er we , we did erm we , we started making er bench models because we found quite a lot of these had been made in Germany . |
| 24 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 25 | During our journey we noticed quite a lot of work being done on several station platforms . |
| 26 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 27 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 28 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 29 | We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . " |
| 30 | ‘ Live , we did a couple of things from ‘ Genesis To Revelation ’ and we did quite a lot of very gentle acoustic things which did n't last . |