Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 2 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 3 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 4 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 5 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 6 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 7 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 8 | At first he had liked the thought of bringing in a lot of women to make Gina jealous . |
| 9 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 10 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 11 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 12 | It would tie down a lot of troops and would also give Phnom Penh the opportunity to raise international alarm at the spectre of the return of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 13 | I reckon Christmas is cracked up a lot more than it it 's made out to be . |
| 14 | ‘ And he whistled up his cohorts after you 'd gone , ’ Sam complained , ‘ and they came with wet-suits and grappling irons and a heavy magnet and dredged up a lot of muck from the dock . |
| 15 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 16 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 17 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 18 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 19 | Which is more than can be said , perhaps , for some of the offerings labelled Panto that are currently mopping up a lot of customers . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Allie 's a good boy , but he dresses up a lot , does n't he ? ’ |
| 22 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |
| 23 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |
| 24 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 25 | For a minority there was disappointment : ‘ Well , it was all very interesting , I found out a lot about what other staff think . |
| 26 | So that helped out a lot . |
| 27 | He moved around a lot , but his heart lay in Aix-en-Provence . |
| 28 | We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school . |
| 29 | ‘ We moved around a lot when I was young . |
| 30 | I bought a pair of contact lenses more than two years ago , and from the start the left lens never felt comfortable in my eye ; it moved around a lot . |