Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Baker has had to do a lot of work on his own up front and he will benefit more than most from Lenny 's arrival . |
| 2 | They appear to have spent a lot of their lives in England , although they have connections in Waterford . |
| 3 | For women , education in the men 's system has meant learning a lot about men in male ways and a lot about learning to be the women men have determined we should be . |
| 4 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 5 | She seemed to have acquired a lot of peculiarities herself . |
| 6 | We 're going to keep making a lot of investments in the future because that 's what we 're excited about , and if that means we would sacrifice some short-term profitability for long-term technology , we would do that , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Most of that will go on delivering the programmes er and most of that is existing funding and so we 're going to have to use a lot of it on that , but we want to do new things as well . |
| 8 | If you leave a complicated estate with lots of bits here there and everywhere and your affairs in mess and the solicitor 's got to sort out he 's going to have to do a lot of work for it . |
| 9 | He does n't understand at all , children say things to him at school he 's very mixed up i 'm going to have to seek a lot of help for all the children.He asked me : ’ Am I going to get the bike back for Mark and Thomas to ride on the child 's seat ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The de Rocheforts seem to have suffered a lot of misfortune . ’ |
| 11 | You you seem to have done a lot of work with other tradesmen and people around the area . |
| 12 | But at the moment I seem to have done a lot of stuff with foam so |
| 13 | Somewhere along the way we seem to have got a lot of wires crossed . ’ |
| 14 | Unless you start off with the right board , though , you 're going to make learning a lot of unnecessarily hard work . |
| 15 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 16 | He trusted Pat — despite the impression he seems to have given a lot of his friends and acquaintances — and enjoyed the company of people like Maggie Smith and Sheila Hancock . |
| 17 | Well he must have think got a lot of good customer here |
| 18 | Do n't want to get get a lot off you ca n't but you want the speed the high speed for laminated copper . |
| 19 | The ability of soil to support plant life is an extraordinarily involved and technically complicated science , and although you do not have to become a scientist in order to grow roses well , you do need to use a lot of judgement in all sorts of situations . |
| 20 | But I do expect to have a lot of laughter , I do expect to have a relaxed and open atmosphere . |
| 21 | Yes , I expect you did have to give a lot for your house . |
| 22 | Pilots do n't have to spend their waking hours obsessed with danger , but they do have to spend a lot of time rolling the word safety around their minds . |
| 23 | But when you get er to a certain I think you do tend to find a lot of the dressier clothes are in black . |
| 24 | What Julius had said made a lot of sense . |
| 25 | You 've you 've made it clear with him that you discriminate quite clearly between the people that go back to work because they 've got children or they 've got l lot of finan and they 've got to do a lot of financial obligations and those who who do n't . |
| 26 | You 've got to devote a lot of time to the care and attention that it requires . |
| 27 | Ca can I just say one thing , though , if you me nip out , it 's not that I do n't want to listen to this , er , it 's in connection with the property er worries that er , Geoffrey said , I 've got to sign a lot of er , arm twisting letters , which I , they want me to sign today , so if I can take five minutes out to sign those , I hope you will not feel I 'm trying to er skive off , as it were . |
| 28 | You 've got to have a lot of confidence . |
| 29 | Balbinder had had to do a lot of puzzles . |
| 30 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |