Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [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 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 3 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | For a minority there was disappointment : ‘ Well , it was all very interesting , I found out a lot about what other staff think . |
| 6 | So that helped out a lot . |
| 7 | He moved around a lot , but his heart lay in Aix-en-Provence . |
| 8 | We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school . |
| 9 | ‘ We moved around a lot when I was young . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And er we , we did erm we , we started making er bench models because we found quite a lot of these had been made in Germany . |
| 12 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 13 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 14 | But after all , ’ he added , in self-excuse , ‘ you fantasised quite a lot of things about Sergei and me , in the novels . ’ |
| 15 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 16 | Husband Tony added : ‘ The results came through a lot quicker than we expected . |
| 17 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 18 | ‘ So I stayed in Hong Kong , flew back and forth to New York , worked at Swift to keep myself busy , and fended off a lot of very annoying letters from my mother and sister , both incessantly wondering when I was going to come to Kenya and put myself through their combined emotional wringer . ’ |
| 19 | On his release from prison in 1985 , Gusty Spence , the leader of the Shankill UVF and the man convicted of the Malvern St murder , was asked about Paisley 's role and he was frankly dismissive : ‘ I have no time for Paisley 's type of religious fervour or his politics but he had no involvement in re-forming the UVF though he stirred up a lot of tension at that time for his own ends . ’ |
| 20 | My confidence came back a lot towards the end of the season . |
| 21 | And I think it it caused quite a lot of hassle and difficulty for people with young children . |
| 22 | So he 'd quite a lot of work to do when he was quite young . |
| 23 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 24 | Yes , oh yes , you learnt quite a lot and er much depended on er the teacher , of course , they were n't as bound as er teachers had been . |
| 25 | But erm you learnt quite a lot , and you learnt the basics very , very thoroughly . |
| 26 | I I must say I 've also been er you know very very impressed and er learnt quite a lot just attending these courses that you 've you 've got running here . |
| 27 | We also learnt quite a lot as to how we should do it next time , so when we now to it for senior managers erm come April May time er and hopefully that er training will be improved on the benefit going through . |
| 28 | He told quite a lot of people what he 'd seen . |
| 29 | ‘ We certainly ate quite a lot of that , did n't we ? ’ |
| 30 | During our journey we noticed quite a lot of work being done on several station platforms . |