Example sentences of "lot of [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siward said , ‘ I can see the Normans already in line , and a lot of foot behind the banners and awnings . ’ |
| 2 | That morning he had to call on a lot of goodwill from the proprietors and editors of the media . |
| 3 | With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead ! |
| 4 | He wins a lot of ball in the line-outs and as such is a useful character to have at top level , in tandem with a big no.8 . |
| 5 | " His business and his horses — and then it looks as though he has spent a lot of money on the stables . " |
| 6 | Er this is erm , er this is the Spring , ca n't read out what it is , the Spring , this is the great Spring raffle , Amnesty does get quite a lot of money from the raffles , er they start off with just the Christmas one now we have them all through the year I think , |
| 7 | They 're on a hiding to nothing bless them and er th I mean Kenny is no different to any other manager in the premier league , er they 're all spending a lot of money in the hopes that they can buy their way to success . |
| 8 | It 's given miners a lot of service over the years and eased a lot of the er distress of the at work . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Nichol has a lot of knowledge in the fields of mental health and this is one area we have wanted to look at for a while . ’ |
| 10 | Even though I put a lot of work into the gigs , I was not foolish enough to believe they were important when we were playing to 40 people in London . |
| 11 | He is very high in his guild his musical know , gets a lot of work from the children and the children really like his classes . |
| 12 | The guys do a lot of work in the villages on the borders of the park , talking to the headmen , explaining the dangers of poaching . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm doing quite a lot of work behind the scenes and talking to various people but I 'm not rushing into anything . |
| 14 | ‘ Poor Irene , and poor David ; he 's going to need a lot of support in the weeks to come . ’ |
| 15 | And the reason for a , a lot of fashion and a lot of change in the fashions , one of the reasons is because these men had , needed some way of showing off their wealth . |
| 16 | Either a maximum word length array would have to be part of the structure , which wastes a lot of memory for the words ( almost all of the lexicon ) which are shorter than that maximum . |
| 17 | ‘ To be honest , I think it 's a lot of fun for the engineers . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We amateurs had a lot of fun with the pros . |
| 19 | Oh of course there 's golf and riding , football for the troops … and a lot of fun in the evenings . |
| 20 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 21 | After a lot of confusion at the police station I was brought in . |
| 22 | ‘ Look Katie , your job is your business , I admit that until I met you I did n't have a lot of time for the police . |
| 23 | Mr Travis gives a lot of time to the kids , not to mention buying those five Toppers for them to learn in . |
| 24 | We spent a lot of time in the mountains . |
| 25 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 26 | Det Con Dave Stanmore of Bootle CID said : ‘ It was a despicable crime which caused a lot of distress to the families of servicemen who died during the war . |
| 27 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 28 | ‘ There might be a lot of bitterness behind the scenes but at least there will be a show of togetherness on the surface . ’ |
| 29 | So in t erm with your regard to you were saying about the fact that there 's a lot of unemployment in the flats , |
| 30 | There has been a lot of banter in the Supporters ' Club lately about the prospect of a supermarket on ‘ The Tip ’ . |