Example sentences of "a lot [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They talked a lot during dinner and then after a couple of brandies , went up to the bedroom . |
| 2 | If I go to my baker I 'll er , I 'll fetch one back and I 'll show ya , they , they used to grow a lot during war to make jam on to subsidize folk to make jam and stuff like that you know |
| 3 | If you do seem to be walking around a lot during meal preparations try to count the number of times you walk to various work areas and even the number of steps you take . |
| 4 | I did n't want to use flash ; I think you lose a lot with flash . |
| 5 | I worked a lot with AIDS and I felt this would be good . |
| 6 | He helped him a lot with research about the history of the building , how the models are made , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ People have baulked at technology-based training because you have to pay a lot up front before you start getting the benefits of the system , ’ says Stephen Weil , marketing manager of CD-I Training , ‘ CD-I takes the hardware cost out of the equation . |
| 8 | And they 're supposed to have improved a lot through pressure . |
| 9 | And with us , she 's met loads of people and she goes out with them a lot through college so |
| 10 | Unscheduled Okay , this is er , it 's , it 's a diagnostic sheet if you find that you 're interrupted quite a lot over time , for you know , at a particular time , and you want to find out why you 're becoming less effective , you use this to log interruptions . |
| 11 | He got a lot taught a lot off granddad . |
| 12 | The fact that one of the most outstanding cricketers of all time was Colin Bland , it says a lot about cricket as an athletic and gripping sport . |
| 13 | And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector . |
| 14 | I mean I do actually that we talk a lot about sustainability floor space . |
| 15 | And , er , the other problem with it is , you really have to know quite a lot about history , or biography to really to really get into . |
| 16 | He knows a lot about back play , and he 's the ideal man to put things over to the younger players . ’ |
| 17 | Through that system they learn a lot about agriculture and the farm stock as well as technology skills and when they make a farm visit are well prepared for what they are going to see . |
| 18 | Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me . |
| 19 | Erm you know a lot about electricity , if I 'm going to use this little thin wire . |
| 20 | It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’ |
| 21 | I think Currys are now into the micro marketing game and that , I think , says a lot about availability . |
| 22 | LATELY , we have been hearing a lot about date rape . |
| 23 | I learned a lot about development and about myself and about some of the origins of racist thinking . |
| 24 | Day One we talked a lot about equipment and its use ; on the second day about how to handle the birds , and on Day Three Brian went into more detail about care and treatment . |
| 25 | ‘ Mrs Simpson knew a lot about life , ’ Edward once said . |
| 26 | ‘ It taught me a lot about life , about being self-sufficient , and , ’ his voice hardened , ‘ about people . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That ’ , says Wilcock , ‘ is how I learned a lot about life and a Sophoclean scene where people were learning . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Mia 's fine , ’ said Dustin , ‘ except that she talks a lot about meditation . |
| 29 | We talked a lot about art — he could n't have been a better sitter . |
| 30 | And I would say , in our school we 've had the Aids team in and we 've talked quite a lot about sex education and they 're still sniggering ! |