Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Franks have received criticism for including a lot of songs dedicated fans will already own . |
| 2 | And to be honest I said it was n't worth wasting a lot of time on them . |
| 3 | Opponents say large families or families with young children have little choice about using a lot of water and could face large price increases with water metering . |
| 4 | Curiously , after dodging a lot of personal questions , the actor opens up when talking about his relationship with Lewis , whom he met two-and-a-half years ago filming a lurid NBC movie of the week Too Young To Die ? |
| 5 | Well it was at night and I mean I was lucky enough to be working which is a thing that 's probably accounted for saving a lot of people . |
| 6 | This had its ( presumably ) desired effect of annoying a lot of other dons . |
| 7 | I introduced myself and was given the job of knitting a lot of maroon cardigans for stock . |
| 8 | It 's been a classic g case of scoring a lot of home goals here , which the Tories have actually benefited from . |
| 9 | And they 're a way of getting a lot a lot of things in a in a in a space . |
| 10 | Running a drug-testing programme is not just a matter of buying a lot of paper cups . |
| 11 | er , thinking of spending a lot of money behind the station and building the supermarket and ploughing it all up , that car park , and then putting the information centre in the old , old |
| 12 | Fish explained his decision to run his own recording studio ; ‘ I got tired of giving a lot of money away to other studios and being away from my family and Scotland . |
| 13 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 14 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
| 15 | Software for Free evaluates the very best in low cost software making the task of choosing a lot less frustrating and time consuming , and by effectively cutting down the number of programs you need to look at it might even save you some money . |
| 16 | A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male . |
| 17 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 18 | She was a short , rather plump woman , or girl , for she was in her early twenties ; dark , not unattractive , who gave the impression of smiling a lot . |
| 19 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 20 | Hm , it 's not worth paying a lot of money at the moment , when you get better at it Back pack 's it is , seven ninety nine . |
| 21 | Yeah , I feel a bit lethargic , but do n't feel like doing a lot , but |
| 22 | If in the early days she was chiefly responsible for shifting a lot of blue eyeliner and baseball caps , she gradually became an inspiration to the frail , the disadvantaged and the miserable . |
| 23 | Well , I think they are making great inroads now into catching a lot of people who er simply refuse to pay er their television licence , but of course there are a lot more who er are still escaping the net . |
| 24 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 25 | ‘ I freelanced for a while and ended up doing a lot of work for the Bee Gees in Florida , for Andy Gibb in particular . |
| 26 | At the time I had the only flying ‘ Messerschmitt ’ in the country and I ended up doing a lot of displays with the BBMF fighters and inevitably being the ‘ baddie ’ . |
| 27 | We put the Wallabies under a lot of pressure and harried them into making a lot of mistakes . |
| 28 | I thought you know , I did think when they were talking , when the council they were talking about spending a lot of money behind the station |
| 29 | Very technically minded , he had been instrumental in training a lot of young Directors and PAs in the art of using the television medium to its fullest extent . |
| 30 | The auction houses were very successful in getting a lot of pictures in recent years , but there were a series of auctions with a very high buy-in rate , and pictures were getting publicly burned . |