Example sentences of "lot of [noun sg] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lot of money went on the favourite . ’ |
| 2 | its , it , the other truck drivers and I have to say that erm to a certain extent you do need to be forceful and positive because er they need a lot of space to manoeuvre on the road and a lot of people who drive cars do n't quite realize how much space they need and if they wo n't give you the space you have to take it . |
| 3 | My Oscars are spending a lot of time moping on the bottom of the tank . |
| 4 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 5 | I spent a lot of time lying on the couch in the living room , watching day-time television with a sneer on my face and my books on my lap , making snide remarks at the soaps and quizzes , chat shows and audience participation fora , skimming the scummy surface of our effervescent present in preference to plumbing the adumbrate depths of the underlying past . |