Example sentences of "do [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it did explain a lot , especially how Stubbly had managed to keep the Mimosa trouble-free over the years . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | But she 's got a nice house and I think if you , if you do want a lot |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | It is true to say Dad did make a lot of money when , for a year or two during World War I , he had his own little factory and a War Department contract for uniforms . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | " The problem with pots , though , is that they do need a lot of care . |
| 10 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 11 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 12 | Though I still felt drunk , my stomach ached and my throat felt like a couple of hedgehogs had had a fight in it , I did feel a lot better . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I do n't like exercising much but I do swim a lot |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We do do a lot of things but do n't go it on our own ; work as a department . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | ‘ You did inherit a lot from your father . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But she knew that Miguel did understand a lot about her — sometimes possibly more than she did herself . |
| 21 | We did see a lot of another Miller , Professor George Miller , of Princeton University , a stolid man of undoubted erudition but with none of Jonathan Miller 's expository dynamism . |
| 22 | How many of you people do use a lot of written communications ? |
| 23 | because they do use a lot of juice up |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You do spend a lot of time on the radio telephone . |
| 26 | ‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change . |
| 27 | Many countries do spend a lot of money on military arsenals so that they can invade and terrorise other countries . |
| 28 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 29 | They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together . |
| 30 | I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun . |