Example sentences of "my [noun] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I paint my sister a lot . |
| 2 | I clean my teeth a lot , you see . ’ |
| 3 | I mention all this because it 's been in my mind a lot recently . |
| 4 | ‘ I was heavily involved before , but now the job is on my mind a lot - it never leaves you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 6 | I wiggled my hips a lot ! |
| 7 | You would have saved 5p ( a paltry sum ; any member of the Slalom Exec out there , how about double fees for all late entries in all divisions ? ) , made my job a lot easier and enabled the slalom to run more smoothly and efficiently . |
| 8 | As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe . |
| 9 | I looked very puzzled and shook my head a lot and said No it ca n't be thkarni because this is thkarni ( no I did n't pull it out or anything — just pointed ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that I 've improved my game a lot , also . |
| 11 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |
| 12 | Walton was scathing : ‘ All that hullabaloo about somebody 's net worth is just stupid , ’ he complained , ‘ and it 's made my life a lot more difficult . ’ |
| 13 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 15 | I just worry about my children a lot . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't give my children a lot of sweets . |
| 17 | I do n't give my children a lot of sweets . |
| 18 | For the last 14 years , I 've worked in shops and offices , but I 've always thought I 'd like to do community work , which would suit my personality a lot more . |
| 19 | ‘ And whatever your reasons , ’ he continued with cold precision , ‘ whatever your motives , it does n't alter the fact that you 've caused my family a lot of grief . |
| 20 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |