Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a lot [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 2 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 3 | Is the Making Belfast Work initiative simply a lot of hype and nothing else ? |
| 4 | But , it is true , there was no help and in many places quite a lot of opposition . |
| 5 | And some shopping , he bought his wife quite a lot of jewellery . ‘ |
| 6 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 7 | Victorian , of course , but if you spend sixty-four years on the throne then a lot of building styles are going to be named after you . |
| 8 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |