Example sentences of "a lot [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well when you had your grab , you used to lower it on the deck of the , deck of the erm trawler and when you open your grab , that much , a lot of it hold up in the grab you see , you could n't get so of course when you did take your grab up , lot of it went over the side . |
| 2 | I mean a lot of it depends on , or perhaps his par well if his parents did n't really bother about him |
| 3 | Learning how to love — you see a lot of it depends on benevolence , as I say , there 's caring for other people , you see , developing a sense of community , you see , it is avoiding the sort of things we get into in Northern Ireland , erm Cyprus , Lebanon , where you get these absolutely nightmarish cultures of violence that just go on generation after generation and are utterly useless . |
| 4 | There was quite a lot of it went on . |
| 5 | Same of the paint went on the window frame ; a lot of it went on the glass ; and most of it went on the floor . |
| 6 | There 's quite a lot of it to do yet . |
| 7 | Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time . |
| 8 | In fact the actor , who reassures fans that he has no plans to quit 90210 now that his movie career is under way , has a more than healthy respect for the opposite sex — a lot of it born out of his admiration at how his mother struggled through during the dark early years of his life . |
| 9 | There were bomb sites around and a lot of it looked like something out of the Ealing comedies . |
| 10 | I was really pleased to get so much in the way of useful comment and feedback — a lot of it bringing up incidental considerations that we clearly have n't yet given enough thought to . |
| 11 | You can find out about world events if you read a good newspaper , somebody said to me yesterday in class well we do n't get the news about these places , you do , you just do n't get it on the T V , it 's there in the Guardian every day , it 's there in the Independent every day , quite a lot of it gets reported in the Telegraph , but it 's no good if you 're reading the Mirror , you wo n't get it in there , you wo n't get it in the Mail or any other of those newspapers , the tabloids , but these things are happening , why would we be interested ? |
| 12 | A lot of it done during the evenings and weekends ? |
| 13 | The skirt is definite , you know , so many pleats , uhum , so obviously that is and the blazer 's static , but quite a lot of it seemed to be fairly , you know , instead of grey , either the school track suit or just a grey track suit , so uhum , which it is , it 's all these little bits like . |
| 14 | A lot of it has been focused on my body — first for being too fat , now for being too thin . |
| 15 | I think er a lot of it has to do with confidence , the more confidence you get the quieter driving erm , I 'm afraid the more aggressive you become whether your a man or a woman but er quiet . |
| 16 | There 's a , apparently a lot of it has been affected by Georgia 's not that far away is it ? |
| 17 | This also conceals the fact that quite a lot of it has appeared in print before in one form or another , a factor to bear in mind before parting with 35.50 . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of it comes through the Byrds , ’ reflects Bob ‘ and , though I was n't , like , a big fan of theirs , The Band . |
| 19 | And I think where the confusion sometimes comes , is that the costume you have , the , the actual evidence of what people were wearing , a lot of it comes from fashion plates , and it 's like saying , erm judging what people in the nineteen-nineties wear from Vogue magazine . |
| 20 | A spokesman said : ‘ The problem with heavy rainfall and flash floods is that a lot of it runs away before it can soak through to the underground aquifers . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ All the same , a lot of it makes no sense but that 's nothing new in my line of business . |
| 22 | A lot of it 's done through the post anyway . |
| 23 | ‘ I know we 've had some bad times recently and a lot of it 's been my fault . |
| 24 | I think that er , I 'll be very brief because a lot of it 's already been said , and you 've already , Mr Chairman picked up Mr on his dodgy figures , erm , with his five million , erm , because what that was about , just under three million was actually fulfilling our election pledges , which is something we have noticeably failed to see from this Conservative government . |
| 25 | In London , there was a lot of it going on . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Kosi said , ‘ there seems to be a lot of it going around . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of it found its way to the Irish Republic . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ A lot in it remains undiscovered , ’ Ian McDiarmid says of his current lead role in Volpone , the 1606 satire that is Ben Jonson 's most frequently performed play . |