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Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a lot " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You got rather a lot of beans .
2	As she glared at him , he continued , ‘ So get used to the fact that , if you plan on staying on here , you will unfortunately be seeing rather a lot of me .
3	Huh , he 's a good , good lad , but he 's er he drinks rather a lot and suffers quite a lot from hangovers , he comes in dries up and goes
4	‘ You 're presuming rather a lot , ’ the Doctor pointed out , ‘ from a heap of crumbled ruins . ’
5	you make an arrangement to have a game of tennis but the weather , you know i it 's snowing or it 's raining so a lot of them get rained off which is er quite sad .
6	We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team .
7	Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon .
8	Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything !
9	It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay .
10	John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions .
11	A fraught fivesome with ants in their pants and , presumably , cockroaches in their coat pockets , they 're all about threats and menace and a three-guitar assault which owes rather a lot to tykes like the Pixies but has absolutely no intention of paying the buggers back .
12	He knows , though , that he has still a lot to learn , particularly about the unglamorous side of things .
13	She gets very down and depressed and rings here a lot .
14	That summer I took Esmerelda kiting quite a lot .
15	Proximity to the Atlantic means rainfall in Britain contains quite a lot of dissolved salts from the sea .
16	The distribution of points in it contains quite a lot of information , but the basic clustering algorithm will lose it because this algorithm will lump all the points into a single cluster .
17	Please help yourself it contains quite a lot of er information leaflets and whatnot .
18	ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses
19	And that that one holds quite a lot
20	The neck has been bound to include the fret ends , which is another nice touch as it looks tidier and actually adds quite a lot to the overall feel of the fingerboard .
21	You 've got to know quite a lot about rhythm .
22	Yes that 's right which means in a way that you 've got to know quite a lot .
23	And , er , the other problem with it is , you really have to know quite a lot about history , or biography to really to really get into .
24	Well , I happen to know quite a lot of clever , amusing , wise , energetic old people who are excellent company and among whom are several of my friends .
25	I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops .
26	The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time .
27	The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time .
28	And er we , we did erm we , we started making er bench models because we found quite a lot of these had been made in Germany .
29	Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools .
30	Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy .