Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] a lot " in BNC.

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1 Sunsoft admits that it has to do a lot more work modifying Solaris 2.0 for Intel than it thought .
2 The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies .
3 Only it 's just lucky that he 's got a lot !
4 The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand
5 You ca n't hear a thing , deaf as the , deaf as a post , and does n't wear any thing , I feel it 's very one side conversation because he , he says all the talking and they ca n't muck in almost unbearable , cos she likes to talk a lot to and she could n't get a word in because
6 If she does have a lot to tell , she gave nothing away during the course of the murder and subsequent fraud trials .
7 Because he he he 's done a a you know he he he 's been a a a a what shall I say , a Well he 's done a lot really to promote erm interest in engineering and all that and and he 's done a lot in helping er to young men to become engineers and that you know .
8 So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you .
9 He does n't have to work , and he 's got a lot of money in the bank .
10 There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process .
11 And he has made a lot of easy promises that he has not yet had to keep .
12 ‘ He has done brilliantly , considering what a bad injury he had and he has set a lot of people talking .
13 We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work .
14 him but er he might not be up in time anyway , cos he 's got a lot of work to do and he thinks he might be up all night tonight , in which case , he wo n't be getting up very early in the morning .
15 If you find yourself with a file that 's big enough to manipulate but too big to turn into an ASCII file , cos it does use a lot of
16 with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ?
17 Yes , but she 's got all the erm she 's got hundreds of well not hundreds , but she 's got a lot of customers , I mean , she works in huge offices does n't she ?
18 But he seems to have a lot of good ideas aimed at taking Forest back to the Premier League and I 'm happy to be part of that . ’
19 Dexter has a lot of problems but he has improved a lot since being here .
20 Corcoran went over on his ankle on Saturday and was quite lame on Sunday but he has improved a lot overnight . ’
21 not sure that he 's on the moment but he 's done a lot and films , er comic actor , funny man .
22 It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of telephone books .
23 It 's not a vocation for him but he 's had a lot of work published including calendars and photographs for the sleeves of the telephone books .
24 But he 's had a lot of space and he 's by and large used it very very well .
25 Basically , Nigel gets everything , but he 's got a lot of it already .
26 ‘ I would n't mind , ’ said Malcolm Harris , ‘ but it does cost a lot , all this toing and froing up to London . ’
27 It 's pretty grimy but it 's had a lot of attention .
28 This is great as far as it goes , but it needs to go a lot farther !
29 you see , er , er Mary was a bit silly because she 's had a lot of air plant , they just pulled them off and threw them out , now I would n't of done , done that because I would of kept some of those
30 a little drink because she 's licked a lot of mud when she came in .
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