Example sentences of "lot [prep] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator . |
| 2 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 3 | Erm , but we 've talked a lot about erm labels being |
| 4 | A lot about erm |
| 5 | You 've told me abou quite a lot about er yes quite a lot of the bad points , are there are there any , is there anything at all , any good points at all , about living here ? |
| 6 | I 'd heard a lot about er af er I 've been in the Transport and General Workers ' Union as a shop steward and so forth like that . |
| 7 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
| 8 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
| 9 | So if you have a lot of pr a lot of pressure , a lot of a lot of volts |
| 10 | Even er the breaking of dough was done with a lot of mang a little wringers thing you know . |
| 11 | yes , the end one 's got a lot of roo , you know ? |
| 12 | Mother had a lot of good words too , I must say , but er it was him we learnt a lot of wor And granny especially you learned a lot of words of hers . |
| 13 | Now that , that Street with , with , from two hundred yards of it there 'd be nine , nine terraces each with twenty four houses in each terrace within this two hundred yards so there were a lot of people closely knit together and er there was quite a lot of unem unemployment , quite a lot of poverty . |
| 14 | Was there a lot of unem |
| 15 | That sum may seem like a lot of lei ( the Romanian currency that purchases next to nothing abroad ) but it still left the Romanians treading a financial tightrope . |
| 16 | That 's a lot of fluctu-fucking-ation though . |
| 17 | They had quite a lot of sa er glassware erm on er half price . |
| 18 | But they do have to be selected — and that takes a lot of |
| 19 | But we went to had a lot of joi jointer then joiners men . |
| 20 | Now you might say perhaps , without really thinking about it , well if he 's got any sense he wo n't have a lot of fe , faith in me because I am , I am a great failure , I 've let him down . |
| 21 | There 'll be a new quango , there 'll be a new S F R A , there 'll be a government ministers er er and a lot of ci civil servants , we already have the deregulation unit . |
| 22 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 23 | now , a lot of fol a lot of people find that surprising but |
| 24 | I think a lot of mis misogyny is behind the scenes in the all |
| 25 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 26 | A lot of the , a lot of them were done by his pupils . |
| 27 | It takes an awful lot of the different kind of practical experience . |
| 28 | Cos I 've got a lot of gr fine and coarse but |
| 29 | The movement of this reminds me of er stage set and the figures on the bench could almost be actors and actresses and with the figure at the bottom here , the male at the bottom , well its not quite at bottom , tucked away at the side there , he , he , he looks like erm , like a harlequin figure , maybe a mischief maker , er I , I felt there was a lot of fun in this painting and a lot of erm , er gravado and , and stage specs , that kind of thing , so this poem is called for obvious reasons People Of The Nile , and I 'll read it twice , probably be the best way Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing Chinese whispers , so I , I , I quite wanted to give that er a , a contemporary updated feel , erm , I read that again for the people who may of just seen the picture at the back People Of The Nile , Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing chinese whispers , erm , the next one , we 'll have to put you on wheels I think |
| 30 | When you realise of course that there 's a hell of a lot of erm scope for well trained , well qualified engineers . |