Example sentences of "[vb past] take a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 2 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 3 | ‘ It seemed to take a lot of counting up . ’ |
| 4 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
| 5 | Not , well , when the children were born , the grandchildren , we started to take a lot more but we do n't take quite as many now . |
| 6 | Since it was two-in-a-row time , he had taken a lot more precautions with this one . |
| 7 | He had taken a lot of trouble with his appearance this morning , Briant noticed , his heavy gray hair carefully slicked across his head , his knitted red tie carefully arranged against the collar of his pink shirt . |
| 8 | As her mother was fond of saying — it had taken a lot of trouble to get her this far , and this last little step was going to take a deal of organizing as well . |
| 9 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 10 | ‘ Bassett had taken a lot worse and not reacted . |
| 11 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |
| 12 | It was , she realised with astonishment , his version of an apology , and she had a feeling that it had taken a lot out of him to say it . |
| 13 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 14 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 15 | Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept . |
| 16 | I had to take a lot of oddments as well , like the marble . |
| 17 | Determining the specific relationship for the reservoir was problematic as Young explains : ‘ We had to take a lot of data from nearby cored wells and simplify it right down before we could build an accurately predictive model . ’ |
| 18 | Before the winter , they wanted to take a lot of food south , and leave it in depots . |