Example sentences of "on [art] lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've done a runner on the lot of them . |
| 2 | She had turned her back on the lot of them , and married Frederick Bissett , from a terraced house in Leeds , bright boy of the street . |
| 3 | Jones 's characteristically gentle satires on the lot of talented women who lack means are among the most accomplished poems written by women in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 5 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 6 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 7 | But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then . |
| 8 | Six months ago I started smoking and put on a lot of weight because I was constantly nibbling . |
| 9 | After I was born she put on a lot of weight , and although eventually she lost most of it , my birth was seen as to blame for her weight problem , and throughout my childhood she reminded me of this . |
| 10 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 11 | But it is at present bidding on a lot of new contracts and chief executive Ken Miller believes defence profits could start to turn up in 1993 . |
| 12 | Babies put on a lot of fat in the last few weeks before they are born , so looked a poor little skinny scrap of a thing . |
| 13 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 14 | After all , a couple 's lives may have been built on a lot of separateness . |
| 15 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 16 | ‘ Jean-Paul , you have put on a lot of weight since I last saw you . |
| 17 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always admired the way Steve handles his playing on a lot of the old Stax ballads — the way he does those really simple , pretty fills , and the way he uses the tremolo on the amplifier — I 'm just a sucker for all that kind of stuff . |
| 19 | ‘ On a lot of the stuff . |
| 20 | It 's based on a lot of African tribal rhythms , but played on urban ‘ found ’ percussion — bits of old metal , anything . |
| 21 | That morning he had to call on a lot of goodwill from the proprietors and editors of the media . |
| 22 | Eventually you will reach the point where you will wonder why one thumb appears to be getting tired and will look down to find that you were holding on a lot of stick trim without even being aware of it ! |
| 23 | His address was on a lot of his belongings . |
| 24 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't very motivated on a lot of my matches . |
| 26 | It does n't seem to have had as bad an effect on a lot of people as it might appear — they have n't immediately turned round and gone back to the very worst anti-gay feeling . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've worked on a lot of great albums and this is right up there with them . |
| 28 | Adds Colin : ‘ What the song is about is this shady character , based on a lot of music people , who is the life and soul of the party . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's like that on a lot of issues , first one side , then the other . |
| 30 | Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations . |