Example sentences of "of a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I owe a hell of a lot to Neighbours and I will always remember that . |
| 2 | White a grade type port of hell of a lot to it . |
| 3 | That 's a hell of a lot to be asking , you know , why is it so much ? |
| 4 | But Wendy , you know , can do a hell of a lot with it . |
| 5 | I 've had a new plate , I 've had a hell of a lot with , with a one of the |
| 6 | When you look at , when you look at the some , all these , a lot of these composers and artists who died long ago and you look the birth range there 's a hell of a lot at seventy five , seventy six |
| 7 | I admit that I once cared a hell of a lot about my appearance , but I 've changed . ’ |
| 8 | Traditionally , country cottages and houses which have unusual or unique features or are in need of a lot of renovation may be auctioned , if only because valuation is likely to be difficult . |
| 9 | The Germans have counter attacked and inflicted a hell of a lot of casualties on the Black Watch . ’ |
| 10 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 11 | This is the typical career pattern of a lot of agents . |
| 12 | This was because there are so many old Spanish customs within the company and rigidities of thinking which take a hell of a lot of changing when you 're talking about people . |
| 13 | There are a hell of a lot of myths perpetrated in this industry . |
| 14 | Win or lose , I guarantee we will not return with our tails between our legs , but with a hell of a lot of dignity and applause from you blokes . |
| 15 | There 's a hell of a lot of luck in cricket , you know . ’ |
| 16 | We had Stevenage Town Hall on the Friday , The Marquee on the Saturday morning and Saturday evening we had the Brummel Club in Bromley which was David 's home town at that time — we 'd received a hell of a lot of publicity for that one . |
| 17 | Ken Pitt : ‘ But the big value of that album was that it brought David 's work to the attention of a lot of important people . |
| 18 | Talking of ‘ inflation ’ — a neat theoretical idea of exponential growth in the early history of the universe that disposed of a lot of problems in the marriage between theoretical physics and cosmology — he refuses to subscribe to the overwhelming enthusiasm with which many scientists discuss the subject : |
| 19 | You 've given me a heck of a lot of ammunition . ’ |
| 20 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 21 | Like so much else in music , this is a process that involves the passage of a lot of Lime : learning a work on the page and then on the orchestra ? |
| 22 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 23 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Bring back Tebbit THERE is just time for the Tories to take the direction of the election out of the hands of a lot of Central Office schoolboys and to make Norman Tebbit their supremo . |
| 24 | She lived in a top flat ‘ up a hell of a lot of stairs , and she used to have a parrot on top of the stairs . ’ |
| 25 | Nothing was done about this move however except that Ludens collected the names of a lot of house agents . |
| 26 | Look round any showground and you 'll see that a hell of a lot of showjumping men buy those striped Marks and Sparks underpants or are Donald Duck fans . |
| 27 | He does n't approve of a lot of things . |
| 28 | ‘ There was once a hell of a lot of work done by someone we know in three days . ’ |
| 29 | But the presence of a lot of barbel is not the only reason why large numbers can be caught at a sitting . |
| 30 | ‘ Entirely up to you — if he goes there , it will cost you a heck of a lot of money . |