Example sentences of "he [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles no longer bothered to hide his disappointment , but his salute was impeccable and he made a lot of noise with his about turn and exit . |
| 2 | I do know that he outlived Great-Aunt Jane and he made a lot of trouble by claiming items of property to which he had no right . |
| 3 | He made a lot of hi-tech guitars and he kept trying to sell me one , but there was something very sterile about them to me ; they had more gadgets than I needed . |
| 4 | He made a lot of changes . |
| 5 | He made a lot of soundings , appointed a special Cabinet committee to go into the subject , and held a special Cabinet to receive its report . |
| 6 | After that , he made a lot of enemies . |
| 7 | He made a lot of money there . |
| 8 | He was a lot in the news this autumn as he made a lot of goals both in the league as well as in the UEFA-cup . |
| 9 | He made a lot of sense talking about that tip and obviously persuaded people to change their viewpoint . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Been dead for years now , has Titch , do n't live to a grand old age as a rule , his sort , everything 's compressed , you see , and he lived a lot longer than they usually do . |
| 11 | I mean he plays a lot of croquet . |
| 12 | He cared a lot about other people and could never understand why someone should want to hurt him . |
| 13 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 14 | He smokes and he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 15 | Perhaps he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 16 | Perhaps he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 17 | There was a man called Ledoux who maliciously claimed that Flaubert had committed suicide ; he wasted a lot of people 's time . |
| 18 | By eschewing such girls he avoided a lot of foreign in-laws and chatter in disparate tongues , and the misunderstandings that are inevitably worsened by not quite speaking the same language . |
| 19 | He laughs a lot . |
| 20 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 21 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 22 | He asked a lot of questions . |
| 23 | He asked a lot of questions about my interest in Cawthorne and I answered honestly . |
| 24 | ‘ And did he make a lot of money ? ’ |
| 25 | Does he make a lot of fuss of her then ? |
| 26 | He got a lot of attention . |
| 27 | He was the only man in the class , which meant he got a lot of attention . |
| 28 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 29 | Erm he got a lot of flack |
| 30 | He got a lot taught a lot off granddad . |