Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 2 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 3 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 4 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 5 | Well many of the traditions nowadays , even the male orientated ones are depending a lot on women to upho hold them . |
| 6 | If you are using a lot of roses in your pressed flower pictures , you may find it worthwhile making up a small stock of finished roses in different colours to save time when you are in an inspired mood and want to concentrate on a design rather than the various techniques involved . |
| 7 | If you are using a lot of abbreviations in a document keep a note of them beside the keyboard as you can easily produce a lot of nonsense if you accidentally use the wrong abbreviation . |
| 8 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 9 | We are helping a lot of kids and that makes me feel good . ’ |
| 10 | We are helping a lot of kids and that makes me feel good . ’ |
| 11 | Those at high risk are eating a lot of fat and very little dietary fibre . |
| 12 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been driving a lot . ’ |
| 14 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 15 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 16 | I am writing a lot in my diary in mid and late May , but nowhere do I make any direct mention of the 13th . |
| 17 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 18 | exactly but because of that they 're playing the ball through the Forest er midfield and they are looking a lot better side . |
| 19 | Things are looking a lot better than 48 hours ago . |
| 20 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 21 | ‘ They 're building a lot more houses here too , are n't they ? ’ said Karen . |
| 22 | kind of carpets all the time , just an odd contract stuff , now it 's nearly all contract , so you 're seeing a lot of different carpets and it 's more interesting wondering where they 're going to , like America and |
| 23 | ‘ I hear you 're seeing a lot of Marshall . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And what is more , we 're wasting a lot of valuable time . |
| 25 | Erm , because if , if interruptions are coming from the people who work for you , you can , you know , nicely tell them to go away and get on with it , but if they 're coming from the boss , and bosses are sensitive soles , so it 's difficult to actually say to the boss , boss you 're wasting a lot of my time , go away . |
| 26 | You know I erm Hugh was talking about erm somebody being thrown out of hospital after gall bladder operation after only two days well fortunately these days there are one or two strives in er in in health care erm to erm which is very much easier to er , operate on people if you 're if you if you 're going to put them out cos the operation 's more er simpler it 's far less stress on patients and and , and they they 're becoming a lot quicker er , clearly if faded out er , the way is completed then er obviously things are serrated with with the chief executive of the health authority and I 'd like to give you this October when when the Chief Executive was . |
| 27 | Cor hey you , we 're swearing a lot on that was they doing that for my benefit do you think ? |
| 28 | We 're improving a lot . |
| 29 | We know we 're going a lot further for a tenner 's worth of fuel , and we 're delighted , ’ he says . |
| 30 | That 's because Ken forgot to photo photocopy the lyrics and they 're at his house , with some other stuff and they discussed what happened on T V last night , but Ethel starts to get really annoyed , seeing as she was the one turning up late , and like , she was on about , we 're paying a lot of money for this studio , let's use it . |