Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that er , you know , has lead to a lot of misery in some cases , er , also I mean there 's question of viability of our own scheme and I er , think er you know , er there are a number of questions which I as a lay-man would like to be , you know , I think the seminar is probably the right to do that . |
| 2 | ‘ The order has led to a lot of interest in other parts of Europe . ’ |
| 3 | what has happened to a lot of these hospitals has n't it ? |
| 4 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 5 | As far as I 'm concerned I think Sarah has put in a lot of objections and all to do with and I do n't know whether there is any answer at all , I 've just got two in my bunch . |
| 6 | She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross . |
| 7 | You know cancel any of your big debts because it 's going to help your budgeting if you know that you 've got rid of a lot of er |
| 8 | Now you , if you get rid of a lot of , of a lot of the rubbish right ? |
| 9 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 10 | We 're gon na make it safe cos when you 're the door you can actually walk in the door and and get clobbered with a lot of bales I feel so we 're gon na make that safe . |
| 11 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 12 | I mean , the the one that 's , I suppose talked about a lot nowadays is A I D S , and there are some drugs , that have , will not cure A I D S , but will slow down , not the progression , but the regression that takes place with A I D S |
| 13 | Robert Dunlop said : ‘ When I came today I would have settled for a lot less . |
| 14 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 15 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 16 | That must have gone on a lot |
| 17 | ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’ |
| 18 | And of course they got knocked about a lot . |
| 19 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 20 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 21 | Yes I 'd love to get rid of a lot of them but I 'm yo you have got two ongoing problems both of which need to be treated so I think to start er cutting things out could make you a lot worse . |
| 22 | USL and SCO are reported to have worked through a lot of their emotional disparity if not their pricing differences over this business of SCO adopting SVR4 . |
| 23 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 24 | ‘ George Graham has been very supportive in the last few years , during which I 've come through a lot of problems . |
| 25 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 26 | But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then . |
| 27 | That 's something that we 've argued about a lot . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've got through a lot of work in the last four days , Chang , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 29 | Mr Wilson said last night that they had talked to a lot of the villagers and were determined not to give in to the vandals . |
| 30 | To Karen , that had sounded like a lot of Jessica 's most harsh and brittle statements , the harshness and the brittleness barely concealing something darker underneath . |