Example sentences of "and a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 2 | ‘ And a lot of people knew him very well indeed , believe me . ’ |
| 3 | But they have proved that with a good plan , persistence and a lot of hard work even a very steep slope can be transformed into a tremendous garden . |
| 4 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 5 | A little bit of the redness and a lot of the fear remained . |
| 6 | A water system and a lot of plumbing is needed for bigger machines . |
| 7 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 8 | These fads for physical fitness invariably , in my experience , lead to two things : a great deal of unnecessary injury and a lot of profit to the people behind the scheme . |
| 9 | Knighton told the Manchester Evening News : ‘ There has been a whole lot of speculation and a lot of misinformation . |
| 10 | Police work involves so much bloody paperwork these days and a lot of boring stuff that a family row can quite spice up a night . |
| 11 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 12 | He knew the people , and the work , and a lot of the clergy . |
| 13 | There were bomb sites around and a lot of it looked like something out of the Ealing comedies . |
| 14 | So what 's happening is a lot of rumour out there and a lot of people who think that this is a wonderful opportunity to make ten per cent on the deal . |
| 15 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm in my 30s now , ’ she adds , ‘ and a lot of my friends are looking round and saying , ‘ Why do n't you have a family , a husband and a baby ? ’ |
| 17 | Much youth work in the region is led by young people and a lot of training is taking place for the leaders of different groups . |
| 18 | ‘ And a lot more besides , ’ adds the big bully . |
| 19 | It is not a continuous road but a route , and a lot of it is the wide , slow Irrawaddy River . |
| 20 | They 're proud of their DIY achievements , which they often find better — and a lot more satisfying — than if a professional had done it for them . |
| 21 | Unless you have a fair experience of building handicrafts and a lot of time on your hands , you will probably need to hire a builder , and you should take as much care over this as possible since the quality of building work varies very substantially indeed , and two different firms of builders , next to each other in the ‘ Yellow Pages ’ may reflect totally different standards and attitudes . |
| 22 | It 's all very inwardlooking , and a lot of the time I find myself — it may sound unforgivable — ignorant of what 's going on outside me and the influences that are going around . |
| 23 | Maladjusted , inadequate characters with a grudge against the world and a lot to prove ( both Adam and Numan had mammoth chips on the shoulder about the music press ) . |
| 24 | I could n't believe that anyone could love me and a lady equally , although I 've had a lot of experiences since and I 've known a lot of men and a lot of women since who have loved both sexes . |
| 25 | They were in offices in Regent Street with Lawrence Myers and a lot of song writers like Tony McCauley and Mike Leanders pottering about . |
| 26 | I think it 's hard to be honest with yourself about certain things and I wanted to think that I had no part in the grandiosity of MainMan and a lot of the bad things about MainMan . |
| 27 | Done with something sharp-edged , and a lot of force . ’ |
| 28 | Eastern Europe shows that worker-owned factories can be as inefficient as state-owned ones — and a lot harder to shut down . |
| 29 | She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint . |
| 30 | Oh of course there 's golf and riding , football for the troops … and a lot of fun in the evenings . |