Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean you put your finger on an important problem here that we need to discuss and that is that if you concentrate on human beings in general , and this is true on our own society but I , I think it 's true of just about all societies and it 's emphatically true of primal hunting adult societies then men do make a lot of parental investment do n't they ? |
| 2 | Remember the one thing about a game show , I do make a lot of them , is you have to be able to play at home . |
| 3 | Remember the one thing about a game show , I do make a lot of them , is you have to be able to play at home . |
| 4 | Also the same if you 're playing football with Jim on Thursday you could also just mention to , I 'll leave you a couple of these er these leaflets which do explain a lot of the areas we 've covered tonight , erm perhaps you could give one to Peter or |
| 5 | It is true to say Dad did make a lot of money when , for a year or two during World War I , he had his own little factory and a War Department contract for uniforms . |
| 6 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 7 | " The problem with pots , though , is that they do need a lot of care . |
| 8 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 9 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 10 | We do show a lot of strong women artists — Nicola Hicks , Amanda Faulkner , Carole Hodgson , Glenys Barton , Lucy Jones — so maybe they do find it slightly easier to approach me . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 12 | We do do a lot of things but do n't go it on our own ; work as a department . ’ |
| 13 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 14 | ‘ You did inherit a lot from your father . ’ |
| 15 | I always do my best , run my heart out , give one hundred per cent for the athletics fans , and I like to believe that they in turn appreciate that , as well as the fact that I do run a lot in Britain . |
| 16 | But she knew that Miguel did understand a lot about her — sometimes possibly more than she did herself . |
| 17 | We did see a lot of another Miller , Professor George Miller , of Princeton University , a stolid man of undoubted erudition but with none of Jonathan Miller 's expository dynamism . |
| 18 | How many of you people do use a lot of written communications ? |
| 19 | because they do use a lot of juice up |
| 20 | It 's something that everybody should be aware of all the time , and I do see a lot of guitarists who really let themselves down by just falling back and letting the obvious happen . |
| 21 | You do spend a lot of time on the radio telephone . |
| 22 | ‘ I adore Ingrid , but I do spend a lot of time making love to her in the Baron and a man needs a change . |
| 23 | Many countries do spend a lot of money on military arsenals so that they can invade and terrorise other countries . |
| 24 | I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns . |
| 25 | They got on very well , nothing homosexual I do n't think , but they did spend a lot of time together . |
| 26 | I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun . |
| 27 | But , failing that , they do provide a lot of visual fun for those who will tune in each week . |
| 28 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 29 | But of course if you 're looking at the American market , I mean the opportunities if you 're in the States are tremendous , so we do face a lot of competition . |
| 30 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |