Example sentences of "and [v-ing] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 2 | She was putting on an act and laughing a lot . ’ |
| 3 | Before , you might be able to say , if you have n't got the right results , you can get away with padding out your lab report and writing a lot of background , so that would bung your mark up a bit , but this year , you can do that and you still end up with a bad mark if you 've got bad results . |
| 4 | ‘ No , he just kept asking for you and swearing a lot . |
| 5 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 6 | ‘ Frank , listen , ’ I say , suddenly inspired , and sounding a lot more sober and calm than I feel . |
| 7 | I was dressed in red leather riding gear and red boots and sweating a lot despite the air-conditioning . |
| 8 | He fantasized about having her certified and getting a lot of sympathy . |
| 9 | Whether or not Crosland actually shared this view of the universities it is possible , as Carswell points out , to deduce from Crosland 's 1965 Woolwich speech that the universities were somehow ‘ placed in isolation , seeking after truth , persuing learning for its own sake , and getting a lot of money for it ’ . |
| 10 | Yesterday things looked pretty hopeful but that it would n't take too long to get the whole thing sorted out , but I must admit things seem to be escalating and getting a lot worse now . |
| 11 | She was now a corporal , much thinner and wearing a lot more make-up than I remembered . |
| 12 | The child is given drinks throughout the night to increase the probability of urinating and providing a lot of opportunities to practise . |
| 13 | ‘ Aid workers ’ who come to developing countries with a purely altruistic attitude — giving up a good job and staking a lot to help poor people — are doomed to be disillusioned and frustrated . |
| 14 | This is how most teachers imagined the job would be : demanding , tiring and requiring a lot of commitment and resourcefulness . |
| 15 | This is crucially important for re-take candidates who may be resubmitting UCCA forms and requiring a lot of attention . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What 's the point of sending Officer Hassan flying off at half cock and upsetting a lot of people if it 's all to no purpose ? ’ |
| 17 | Not always knowing what to expect makes some of the physical and emotional changes associated with pregnancy harder to deal with — things like feeling more vulnerable , being easily upset , and crying a lot , are easier to take if you know this is a normal , if disturbing , aspect of pregnancy . |
| 18 | ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . ) |
| 19 | Thirdly , our policy analysis and research team , takes responsibility for looking further ahead , and doing a lot of the initial thinking about both the challenges and the opportunities that will affect the sector domestically and internationally over the next few years . |
| 20 | and doing a lot of work , but he was erm , he was asking said do you ever hear of Alistair , I said yes , he said oh well give him , remember me to him |
| 21 | ‘ You know , for me , it 's all about people getting in the water and having a lot of fun in safety , ’ he concludes . |
| 22 | I discovered that they virtually ran a bird hospital and I was soon bringing them more casualties and learning a lot of useful things about bird-keeping and care . |
| 23 | Do n't fall into the trap of trying to be too clever and changing a lot of different things at once — then if the problem goes away you still do n't know which of the possibilities was causing the difficulty . |
| 24 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 25 | Right , but what needs to happen is if we continue like this we 're gon na be re-inventing the wheel every year and making a lot of work for yourselves . |
| 26 | Among the looting and fighting a lot of the villagers had managed to maintain their traditional systems for support . |
| 27 | But both are things we must be prepared to do on occasion , and both are preferable to staying at home and watching a lot of odious rubbish on television . |
| 28 | Above the usual Fraggle style , the leaping around and smiling a lot stage presence , the Northampton four-piece have a frontman with a larger than life aura akin to Perry Farrell and Miles Hunt . |
| 29 | A by-product of this is that corpus-based linguistics , for a long time ignored in favour of logic-based linguistics , is becoming more accepted and attracting a lot more attention . |