Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb infin] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean you put your finger on an important problem here that we need to discuss and that is that if you concentrate on human beings in general , and this is true on our own society but I , I think it 's true of just about all societies and it 's emphatically true of primal hunting adult societies then men do make a lot of parental investment do n't they ? |
| 2 | Remember the one thing about a game show , I do make a lot of them , is you have to be able to play at home . |
| 3 | Remember the one thing about a game show , I do make a lot of them , is you have to be able to play at home . |
| 4 | But she 's got a nice house and I think if you , if you do want a lot |
| 5 | Also the same if you 're playing football with Jim on Thursday you could also just mention to , I 'll leave you a couple of these er these leaflets which do explain a lot of the areas we 've covered tonight , erm perhaps you could give one to Peter or |
| 6 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 7 | " The problem with pots , though , is that they do need a lot of care . |
| 8 | We do show a lot of strong women artists — Nicola Hicks , Amanda Faulkner , Carole Hodgson , Glenys Barton , Lucy Jones — so maybe they do find it slightly easier to approach me . |
| 9 | I do n't like exercising much but I do swim a lot |
| 10 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 11 | We do do a lot of things but do n't go it on our own ; work as a department . ’ |
| 12 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 13 | I always do my best , run my heart out , give one hundred per cent for the athletics fans , and I like to believe that they in turn appreciate that , as well as the fact that I do run a lot in Britain . |
| 14 | How many of you people do use a lot of written communications ? |
| 15 | because they do use a lot of juice up |
| 16 | It 's something that everybody should be aware of all the time , and I do see a lot of guitarists who really let themselves down by just falling back and letting the obvious happen . |
| 17 | You do spend a lot of time on the radio telephone . |
| 18 | ‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change . |
| 19 | Many countries do spend a lot of money on military arsenals so that they can invade and terrorise other countries . |
| 20 | But , failing that , they do provide a lot of visual fun for those who will tune in each week . |
| 21 | Packets of seeds are much less expensive than florists ' flowers in the long run , but they do cost a lot more in time and effort . |
| 22 | But of course if you 're looking at the American market , I mean the opportunities if you 're in the States are tremendous , so we do face a lot of competition . |
| 23 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |
| 24 | One of the things I like most about Julia is the fact that she 's very different from me ; I like our dissimilarities more than our similarities , although we do share a lot . |
| 25 | ‘ We do not have too many Woosnams , ’ said Mr Schofield , ‘ but we do have a lot of Fehertys and Montgomeries and for them to have survived one of the greatest tests is testimony to how strong we are becoming . ’ |
| 26 | In truth , elephants and E. coli do have a lot in common , inasmuch as all organisms share fundamental pathways of cellular metabolism — such as protein synthesis or carbohydrate breakdown — as well as the genetic code . |
| 27 | ‘ As I said , ’ Lucinda smiled ruefully , ‘ I do have a lot to learn . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 29 | ‘ We do have a lot of data on that banking colossus . |
| 30 | ‘ In fact it 's quite a good position to be in , ’ she says , ‘ in that you do have a lot of control over your future . |