Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Study and check these examples : unc Lots of practice is needed to become familiar with the metric system , but once you have got to know it you should be able to use this system more easily than if you were working with miles , furlongs , yards , feet and inches .
2 He got a lot taught a lot off granddad .
3 nations I think we do very little , I mean , we do a lot for charity but if you look our planet is dying as , you look at the green issue we are far behind so monarchy does n't help us there .
4 Well , things that I learnt yesterday was erm Aldershot method the structured thought patterns and the coaching erm the Aldershot method is tremendous I liked that a lot for expansion editing summarising and first class and I will use it from now on .
5 We 're going to do a lot for education .
6 No , it 's nice cos it 's a lot for presentation as well
7 We are absolutely clear on that , it came over quite clearly from heads , the previous policy of increasing class sizes and therefore not spending any more money but claiming we 're doing a lot for nursery education , the previous policy erm was not one which they wanted to support .
8 Fred thanks a lot for ringing .
9 Many old people have a severe degree of physical disability , of which rheumatism and arthritis top the lot for pain and discomfort .
10 Especially if there 's a lot for sale down there .
11 Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews .
12 She said bollocks on you lot for Christmas .
13 Love encapsuled every minute they spent together — not many minutes as there was a lot for Maman to do in the day , hours of grown-up stuff which ate up her time .
14 Guitarists write to me a lot for advice , I guess because there 's not a lot of people out there who can really help .
15 If I go to my baker I 'll er , I 'll fetch one back and I 'll show ya , they , they used to grow a lot during war to make jam on to subsidize folk to make jam and stuff like that you know
16 They talked a lot during dinner and then after a couple of brandies , went up to the bedroom .
17 If you do seem to be walking around a lot during meal preparations try to count the number of times you walk to various work areas and even the number of steps you take .
18 And with us , she 's met loads of people and she goes out with them a lot through college so
19 And they 're supposed to have improved a lot through pressure .
20 And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin .
21 Do I know a lot about boxing she said ?
22 Through that system they learn a lot about agriculture and the farm stock as well as technology skills and when they make a farm visit are well prepared for what they are going to see .
23 ‘ Mia 's fine , ’ said Dustin , ‘ except that she talks a lot about meditation .
24 And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector .
25 Women who talk a lot about independence are often the most dependent .
26 I could tell you a lot about resort children .
27 LATELY , we have been hearing a lot about date rape .
28 Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me .
29 I mean I do actually that we talk a lot about sustainability floor space .
30 He knows a lot about back play , and he 's the ideal man to put things over to the younger players . ’
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