Example sentences of "did a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did a lot of research , ’ Tuppen said . |
| 2 | The goal did a lot to temper France 's discomfort at the dismissal of the centre-back Eric Di Meco for hacking down Johnston and incurring both the referee 's displeasure and a second bookable offence . |
| 3 | I did a lot of homework when I started working on the script . |
| 4 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 5 | She actually did a lot of good things — she pulled a lot of things together and did a lot of things for David . |
| 6 | She actually did a lot of good things — she pulled a lot of things together and did a lot of things for David . |
| 7 | That first tour did a lot to make the rest of the tours tremendously successful because , with all things like that , if you do play to a small group of people and you still do a great show , then by word of mouth the word spreads how wonderful you were , even though it was n't packed . |
| 8 | The clock did a lot more besides telling the time of day . |
| 9 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 10 | Ewan , apparently , did a lot of surprising things , ’ Roirbak replied drily . |
| 11 | So he did a lot of that , for nothing . |
| 12 | She did a lot of work in sitting at first , gaining the feeling of balancing onto her left side , and she was taught how to move her spine more normally . |
| 13 | Before we had her she did a lot of show jumping and has bred a foal . |
| 14 | When this song failed to make the impact she clearly expected it to make , she turned to Henry as if she was addressing some Yugoslav peasant and did a lot of the kind of lip and tongue work she had used on Elke , their one and only au pair . |
| 15 | Their presence and interest alone did a lot for the morale of the schools involved . |
| 16 | What he was probably saying was that he could not get more money unless he did a lot more teaching , whereas his heart was in his research . |
| 17 | Later he did a lot of work for that curious Radio 3 Arts programme , ‘ New Premises ’ . |
| 18 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |
| 19 | On our journey to the funeral we all did a lot of thinking . |
| 20 | He did a lot for the children , warmed and warming in his need to hold and touch them . |
| 21 | We did a lot of woodwork at our school , and the other kids liked to lock me and my friends in the storeroom and have us chant ‘ Manchester United , Manchester United , we are the boot boys ’ as they held chisels to our throats and cut off our shoelaces . |
| 22 | We did a lot of woodwork at the school because they did n't think we could deal with books . |
| 23 | After that I did a lot of arranging of the parts around the dynamics , and we recorded the whole thing at Eel Pie ( Pete Townshend 's studio ) . |
| 24 | When I did a lot of my chord studying I used a Gibson 175 , and a cello guitar will obviously make your music go in a certain direction . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 26 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 27 | So I think the tour did a lot for me . ’ |
| 28 | And we did a lot of experimentation as far as going for certain guitar sounds and stuff like that . |
| 29 | He said he and his Jewish wife both did a lot of reading and writing . |
| 30 | ‘ It did a lot for the sport and so many people enjoyed it . ’ |