Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 2 | And , road accidents , we talk about them a lot , and we 've discussed about charging for them , or whether we should n't and all the rest of it , they are n't about bits of squashed metal , they 're about people . |
| 3 | ‘ The bullets were hitting the road and I could see them coming towards me a lot faster than I was able to reverse . ’ |
| 4 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 5 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 6 | I think your doctor is right when he says that you need time to get over the loss of your dad and your friend , and it is only right and natural that you should think of them a lot , but if you try to turn your thoughts to good and happy memories of them that will be the best way of honouring them , and will help you , too . |
| 7 | She she gets hold of her a lot now do n't she ? |
| 8 | I think of him a lot , you know . |
| 9 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 10 | I try to keep out of it a lot now but I 'm not scared or nothing . |
| 11 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 12 | He spoke of it a lot that evening : not to bring home to her all he 'd done but rather because it 'd been perhaps the biggest single event in his ( now rather dull ) life . |
| 13 | We broke the back of it a lot on the work that we did for Rickmansworth . |
| 14 | A lot of it A lot of it is just is just down to erm marketing |
| 15 | I do find I 'm conscious of it a lot of the time . |
| 16 | Other people probably can forget about it cos I 'm wearing it , I feel conscious of it a lot of the time . |
| 17 | There 's words like chief , wad , dude they all mean you 're an idiot , a joker or a means , like , you make a fool of yourself a lot . |
| 18 | There was a home opened in Tayside earlier this year — a 90 bed home — and this is flying in the face of what a lot of people have put in a lot of effort arguing with health service that you have to get away from the concept that 80 , 90 , 120 beds is a small unit . |
| 19 | I remember going to 's school , and er they put in front of us , I were very young , put in front of us a lot of s colours , cottons . |
| 20 | as you know with dint of great effort , got er , the er , scheme off the ground , which has taken a lot of , all of us a lot of hard work , er , and we 're proposing other schemes at Bexford House . |
| 21 | Stephen has talked about you a lot in the last few months , ’ she said . |
| 22 | " I 've been thinking about you a lot , too . |
| 23 | She says ; people like him a lot . |
| 24 | I said that 's bo , that 's bothered me about that bleeding , I like him a lot . |
| 25 | The Chinese also like it a lot , particularly those educated in England , ’ Mr Barnes said . |
| 26 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 27 | If meeting him could make you reach for something a lot stronger than H 2 O , you will be relieved to hear that he 's anchored to the ground . |
| 28 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 29 | Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc . |
| 30 | I spent the war years living alongside these chaps , living , eating and sleeping with them a lot of the time . |