Example sentences of "a lot of [noun pl] about " in BNC.
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1 | Inspector Dave Jenkinson , said : ’ We had had a lot of complaints about drivers with no lane discipline . |
2 | There were a lot of jokes about establishing gun-emplacements and throwing hand grenades . |
3 | but er any attempt to put anything on at the back to the extent , right up to the Scout 's hut in Beech Hall will , I think , generate a lot of feelings about |
4 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
5 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
6 | There were a lot of trash-cans about and one of those cast-iron fire escapes with the really tedious retractable bottom sections . |
7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
8 | ‘ She is , however , saying a lot of things about young feelings : Kylie wanting to love and be loved at the same time . |
9 | But after all , ’ he added , in self-excuse , ‘ you fantasised quite a lot of things about Sergei and me , in the novels . ’ |
10 | We 've done a lot today you know we 've done a lot of things about fractions and a lot of things about adding , subtracting , times , sharing quite a lot . |
11 | We 've done a lot today you know we 've done a lot of things about fractions and a lot of things about adding , subtracting , times , sharing quite a lot . |
12 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
13 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
14 | But the things is , he wanted to a lot of things about came up like in the middle |
15 | ‘ There were a lot of things about the club I did n't get on with . |
16 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
17 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
18 | Well they , seeing the Ottery , whatever you call it , they did put in a lot of work down there , there seem to be a lot of Scouts about . |
19 | I feel that many people made a lot of assumptions about me . |
20 | There were a lot of stories about Elizabeth and Robert Dudley . |
21 | As Orton noted , Ken told a lot of stories about people who committed suicide — and constantly talked about death , but in a funny way . |
22 | For one thing , these gross categories seem to be the backdrop to a lot of discussions about individual behaviour and personality traits . |
23 | As the editor in chief of such a magazine , I am obliged to answer a lot of questions about men . |
24 | She had to face a lot of questions about Labour 's plans to tax the better-off . |
25 | Because homoeopathy tends to be unfamiliar to the majority of people , they ask a lot of questions about it . |
26 | And then there were a lot of questions about money . |
27 | I remember a lot of questions about gay men , Heaven , leather bars and the geography of London . |
28 | Chances are if you bought your racket in Britain it already had strings in it — unlike in the USA where the retailer will ask you a lot of questions about how you play and then string your new frame for you . |
29 | But after her shower she asked them a lot of questions about safety in the factory . |
30 | Er er but the second time the police came and asked quite a lot of questions about it . |