Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're getting married later in the year , this is a time when you and your partner will need to sort out a lot of practical and emotional matters between you . |
| 2 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 3 | But you do n't need to pay out a lot of money : a large , lidded Tupperware box with enough room for four bottles and teats , disinfected with plain sterilising tablets and changed daily , will do . |
| 4 | It can expect to pick up a lot of support both from mainstream Solidarity and from the squabbling peasants ' parties . |
| 5 | More Antony 's personality seemed to change quite a lot in the play , his true , selfish colours came out in this speech . |
| 6 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 7 | Well , I happen to know quite a lot of clever , amusing , wise , energetic old people who are excellent company and among whom are several of my friends . |
| 8 | You 've got to know quite a lot about rhythm . |
| 9 | Erm , if you erm , maybe erase part of entries of the spreadsheet , you think , oh that 's going to free up a lot of memory , er , probably it wo n't . |
| 10 | Two banks were persuaded to put up a lot of money , so that by the time Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C came to consider the action , the loans including interest totalled around £40M . |
| 11 | So he would have had to do quite a lot of work . |
| 12 | Er , one thing that tends to use up a lot of memory , is when you insert columns on the left of the spreadsheets . |
| 13 | You seem to do rather a lot of panicking , do n't you ? |
| 14 | ‘ I hear you 're going to inherit quite a lot of money . ’ |
| 15 | Yes bear in mind that that of course , that you 're going to get quite a lot of adult audience going through it as well as kids of course . |
| 16 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 17 | It was beginning to dawn on Hoomey that horses like this — surely ? — were going to need quite a lot of attention , feeding , brushing and all that stuff . |
| 18 | The museums are going to take quite a lot of time . |
| 19 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 20 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 21 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 22 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 23 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 24 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 25 | But one would have to cut out a lot of the nature stuff . |
| 26 | That 's as much as her voice will stand , and we 'll have to cut quite a lot of those anyway if she 's going to get through the Season intact . ’ |
| 27 | one mistake you know forget something and you 'll be going round like this five pints I use , I use to see quite a lot of things missing you know in a certain time |
| 28 | Kenneth Graham did come to visit quite a lot between 1880 and 1910 . ) |
| 29 | Obviously the tones are sharper without DBX but the 238S does seem to generate quite a lot of noise on its own . |
| 30 | Ammonia , a molecule formed by nitrogen and hydrogen , seems unpromising as an analogue of water , but methane , formed by carbon and hydrogen , would seem to hold out a lot of hope . |