Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I takes the lot in there for the lower orders , ’ said Sid . |
| 2 | ‘ I took a lot of stick from the press , ’ said the England Under-21 player , ‘ but the lads backed me and so did the manager . |
| 3 | Alan and I took a lot of meetings … in Londonderry , Coleraine , Portglenone . |
| 4 | I took a lot of time off , always after the indoor season , and returned smiling in the summer . |
| 5 | I think I took a lot of my ideas about class from my dad and not from my mum who was this very ladylike woman , who was involved in the church and never really wanted you to say anything nasty about class or anything like that . |
| 6 | ‘ I take a lot of holidays , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I hold it out to her so she can take lOp , and she takes the lot . |
| 8 | I mean like do you take a lot of stuff every time you go to the van ? |
| 9 | She took a lot of convincing : distrust was deeply ingrained in her , she dared not believe in good fortune ; she was conditioned to thinking in terms of Lajos and adjustment took some time . |
| 10 | She 's actually a really nice woman and she took a lot of time to really explain to me what was going on with her at that time . |
| 11 | She took a lot of pains with him . |
| 12 | mind , she took a lot of time over it |
| 13 | ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain . |
| 14 | It 's terrible if you take a lot of it because it 's just bad for your personality — not for your health , except for the fact that you get thin . |
| 15 | you take a lot of convincing |
| 16 | ‘ We took a lot of stick from the public but not from the relatives . |
| 17 | and then , well we leave the daffies and then when the tulips have died off we take the lot |
| 18 | And due to them taking a lot of the trees do you see , from there , and opened the wind in do you see . |
| 19 | I think what went wrong was that they took a lot of their ideas from western countries and they sort of felt because this was in all the other countries , we should bring it to Ireland as well . |
| 20 | This lays the groundwork for another great factor that is frequently ignored at great expense : because women must have these psychological or romantic preconditions met before they can enter fully into sexual relations , they take a lot longer to ‘ warm up ’ . |
| 21 | I think you 're doing very well on this by the we 're getting through an awful lot here it 's usually even with very much older children they take a lot longer to get this . |
| 22 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 23 | I mean , I 've worked with and I am familiar with them , there is very little it 's a real run-down area is n't it , in some respects , and you get twenty shoplifters a day , but my students are brilliant , they take a lot of pride in what they do . |
| 24 | They take a lot of cleaning though . |
| 25 | but er , they take a lot of heating |
| 26 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 27 | And it takes a lot to light up the eyes of a man dying of tuberculosis . |
| 28 | But it takes a lot to ruffle an XJ6 . |
| 29 | It takes a lot to arouse nationwide indignation in Canada . |
| 30 | Like — It takes a lot of nerve to become a writer when your name 's Shakespeare and In the sort of job I do , courage and truth are essential . |