Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 2 | Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks . |
| 3 | Now erm at the moment I 've got a lot to fit in |
| 4 | ‘ Since the Chancellor 's announcement we have had a lot of inquiries which we are confident of turning into sales , ’ says Rover dealer Ashmall Parkinson salesman David Bailey . |
| 5 | Of course we want to generate a lot of sales and to broaden the market for fiction with our customers , but the whole point of the promotion is to widen the market for authors who have n't previously broken through . |
| 6 | On one occasion she had drunk a lot of alcohol , which had made her feel worse . |
| 7 | So I mean that day we had to tell a lot of lies , you know , like that . |
| 8 | He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me . |
| 9 | In previous races that season I had beaten a lot of the top contenders , including Woronin and the Frenchman Bruno Marie-Rose . |
| 10 | To be a good cook you have to do a lot of things precisely , but it requires no understanding . |
| 11 | In the theatre you 've worked a lot with Steven Berkoff and his own plays . |
| 12 | I lifted them early because I did n't want to leave them any longer because they were going to get damaged and they were , they were a wet potato when they came up and they 've cooked wet , so I think that the amount of rainfall you have has a lot to do with it . |
| 13 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |
| 14 | have to say a lot you have to talk a lot . |
| 15 | But I know you said there was a big erm tariff against it , but on the other hand they do get a lot of more benefits from it , like er well , the erm the price that 's paid for a lot more , and , and it gives a lot more employment . |
| 16 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 17 | It 's just that this year I have had a lot of weak influencing situations , been on a lot of projects groups and so on , and last year I needed a lot of extra staff . |
| 18 | One 's going to be shape I 've got a lot of material to go on it , we have n't made the backing . |
| 19 | Until this year he has used a lot of bedding plants to add colour . |
| 20 | No doubt he had wanted a lot of women . |
| 21 | Just learn we 'll try and find some easy ways for you to learn it erm cos I think you 're a good learner you 've learnt a lot today have n't you ? |
| 22 | In fact you 've scored a lot of Brownie points with the Chairman , bringing his precious clubs back . |
| 23 | But just at this particular time we 've got a lot of residents with Zimmer frames and they really just are n't steady enough without one of the care staff going across with them , which does happen . |
| 24 | I mean er it 's , it 's a i i it 's sort of er you can read into it various sort of suggestions for radicalism but at the same time it 's got a lot of erm you know sort of and stuff about the rich peasants , erm land of the rich peasants should not be confiscated |
| 25 | In his time he has tried a lot of things : card-sharping , prison , wife-thrashing and perhaps wife-murder , child-violation , even good works . |