Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sensible choice simply because he or she will know a lot about your financial affairs in any event , and therefore is going to know what to look for and how to deal with it . |
| 2 | I said you put one lot of checks in here and I 'll put a lot of checks in the other . |
| 3 | There was a sort of bird sanctuary on an island in the middle of the lake and I 'd spend a lot of my time watching the comings and goings of the inhabitants . |
| 4 | ‘ Our league campaign this season was over before it began and I could offer a lot of excuses but wo n't . |
| 5 | BELOW Dawn and I used to watch a lot of television while I was training her , but she was always easily distracted — she 's obviously much more interested in what the photographer is doing . |
| 6 | ‘ Your father and I used to eat a lot of condensed milk when we were children . ’ |
| 7 | They show that you 're not just a ‘ browser ’ , but are serious — and you 'll get a lot more help as a result . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , you 'll have a great deal to talk about within Congress and you 'll have a lot more time to do so . |
| 9 | Look along the rows of machinery at any farm show and you 'll see a lot of professionally-made equipment . |
| 10 | And you can do a lot in fifteen seconds , you could murder somebody in fifteen seconds . |
| 11 | You just have to look round a lot of trophy cabinets and you can see a lot of locally sponsored cups and trophies in there . |
| 12 | It does n't matter if we do it a little bit before you do it at school because when you do it you 'll understand then and you can get a lot from it you can ask |
| 13 | Hopefully , however , there will be plenty of others sailing , and you can learn a lot by watching them for a while . |
| 14 | The disadvantage is that it is a time-consuming process and you will have a lot more teething problems when first running the system . |
| 15 | Prevention is better than cure , and you should use a lot of deep stances during your basic training . |
| 16 | Yes , yes and you used to do a lot of sharing er one f u farms helping each other . |
| 17 | She could have it out and she 'd have a lot of fun with it and on it . |
| 18 | Apart from indicating status , each church represents perhaps the most important local focal place for any settlement , and we might spend a lot of time studying it in our local research . |
| 19 | And we may antagonize a lot of people in doing so . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're both obviously suffering from jet-lag , and we 'll feel a lot better after a decent night 's sleep . ’ |
| 21 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 22 | And we used to get a lot of Californian fruit . |
| 23 | Aye , we went on the train to Dunfermline and we used to have a lot of trips . |
| 24 | Well as you know I was a shepherd and I used to look after the Chichester Estate and we used to have a lot of erm lot of erm sheep in those days . |
| 25 | ‘ The top eight is our aim and we will surprise a lot of teams this season , ’ he said . |
| 26 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 27 | But he was reserved , and he used to do a lot of thinking , especially on the golf course where he used to keep himself to himself . |
| 28 | ca n't really make coffee because no one else is here and it 'll waste a lot of time . |
| 29 | and you 'd get very sad and it would hurt a lot . |
| 30 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |