Example sentences of "[pron] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has given my wife and I a lot of comfort . |
| 2 | I a lot of pain at the back of my eye though |
| 3 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 4 | It 's a good sign if he has loved someone a lot , it shows that he has a capacity for love . ’ |
| 5 | Be sitting on the wall by my a lot of the men . |
| 6 | Do you use yours a lot ? |
| 7 | Biographies and political memoirs — to which a lot of space is granted — are often used as a device for the reviewer to express his own prejudices . |
| 8 | I was just a stranger up here in Liverpool , coming from Scotland and I did n't have anybody backing me , which a lot of people do — somebody pulling strings for them . |
| 9 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 10 | The pharmaceuticals business — which was bound to suffer when the US patents expired last year on Tenormin , a beta-blocker and one of the world 's most successful drugs has been further hit by the failure of two products in which a lot of money and hope had been invested . |
| 11 | Pretending you 're sexist or racist , which a lot of comics seem to be doing up here at the Festival , is n't good enough . |
| 12 | In special circumstances we 'll cover some expenses and we pay them a token fee , which a lot of guests donate to charity . |
| 13 | Which a lot of English people do . |
| 14 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 15 | Erm I graduated from that to taking newspapers which a lot of us did . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we make the most of having a good time , which a lot of bands just do n't bother saying . |
| 17 | Then , you see , at certain periods of the years herbs were common , bloom , which a lot of it was used . |
| 18 | Without quality systems in place , we wo n't be able to tender in the future for design work which a lot of our clients will be offering . |
| 19 | ‘ I think we make the most of having a good time , which a lot of bands just do n't bother saying . |
| 20 | It looks like a locally printed or erm product which a lot of local printers could print this there 's |
| 21 | Er which a lot of telephone sales people in whatever they 're doing do n't . |
| 22 | The other thing , which a lot of you asked for , was more handouts and more overhead projector slides . |
| 23 | I mean , some and some of the issues are , perhaps not the main issue of the story , but er , are sort of peripheral , if I can use that word , on the , on the edge , like identified weight as a problem , which a lot of middle aged women seem to encounter and get obsessed by it , but actually , the weight thing there , but the central thing is the relationship between the husband and wife , and the weight issue is sort of , I do n't know , tied up with it , but it it was n't the main issue . |
| 24 | I mean yes of course we should live harmoniously together er who would y'know , sector of those people who have taken advantage of the right to buy and and so on and so forth but we talking about housing management in about housing management costs and if you have an estate of y'know being repaired similar houses which a lot of our estates are , it makes sense that they 're managed as it were centrally er and because that 's the most efficient way of doing it erm if you have a variety of different landlords in er one estate or one street and all the houses are similar , when it comes to things like modernisation and so forth it it 's duplicated a great deal of er er er of work and it is not cost efficient and it does n't make any common sense at all . |
| 25 | They was only , they 'd either got to pay for accommodation at a lodging house or go to the workhouse , they called them then , which is the casual ward , and at the casual ward they were required to bath on admission , which a lot of them did n't like , they were compelled to do certain work . |
| 26 | Which a lot of people would , say they go and sit down there and they say blah blah blah sign here and |
| 27 | So , you know , if you get one factor on which a lot of them load erm like the business about , you may find there 're strong correlations between the attitudes to abnormality and , where 's the one on mental illness and stuff like that ? |
| 28 | b and d is a problem which a lot of dyslexic children have . |
| 29 | Shall I keep it in my pocket , its a lot easier |
| 30 | Tremayne said the process saved the owners from wasting money on fruitless horsebox expenses and jockey fees and also saved himself a lot of inexplicable and worrying disappointments . |