Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other difficulty with handouts is there 's an awful lot of you g to give the handouts to so we tend to waste a lot of time . |
| 2 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
| 3 | ‘ We got to know a lot of interesting things about your way of life and your education system — and we found many similar things . ’ |
| 4 | We were on the ground floor of the flats , and we got to know a lot of them as neighbours as well as some of them as clients . |
| 5 | Of course we want to generate a lot of sales and to broaden the market for fiction with our customers , but the whole point of the promotion is to widen the market for authors who have n't previously broken through . |
| 6 | We hope to spend a lot of our time there . |
| 7 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 9 | Monika said : ‘ We developed a deep friendship and one night after we 'd drunk a lot of rum at my house , he tried to kiss me . |
| 10 | We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’ |
| 11 | H. P. Some people would get a bottle of beer — we 'd had a lot of fellows come out of the army and they were fond of their drink and there 's no doubt that they could get it . |
| 12 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 13 | We seem to have a lot of dirty tissues and stuff . |
| 14 | Do we like sell a lot of burgers ? |
| 15 | We like to get a lot of attention . |
| 16 | ‘ We aim to do a lot of mobile meandering across the other countries of the Continent , further visits to the USA and of course to many other corners of this country , ’ said Roy . |
| 17 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 18 | We did see a lot of another Miller , Professor George Miller , of Princeton University , a stolid man of undoubted erudition but with none of Jonathan Miller 's expository dynamism . |
| 19 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 20 | Erm y you get a lot of well we did get a lot of verbal abuse from the young the youngsters . |
| 21 | We we we did get a lot of phone calls complaining about erm loud reggae type music from that area . |
| 22 | But we did have a lot of fun . ’ |
| 23 | We do do a lot of things but do n't go it on our own ; work as a department . ’ |
| 24 | We do show a lot of strong women artists — Nicola Hicks , Amanda Faulkner , Carole Hodgson , Glenys Barton , Lucy Jones — so maybe they do find it slightly easier to approach me . |
| 25 | But of course if you 're looking at the American market , I mean the opportunities if you 're in the States are tremendous , so we do face a lot of competition . |
| 26 | Are you comfortable with videos because we do hear a lot of artists who are not comfortable on video . |
| 27 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 28 | ‘ We do not have too many Woosnams , ’ said Mr Schofield , ‘ but we do have a lot of Fehertys and Montgomeries and for them to have survived one of the greatest tests is testimony to how strong we are becoming . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We do have a lot of data on that banking colossus . |
| 30 | Because it ca , most , we do lose a lot of money on carriage forwards . |