Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] lot [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So with your pennies and her pennies I think we should all make a lot of money for Save The Children , do n't you ? |
| 2 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 3 | This action was very strange because Andries not only attracted a lot of attention to himself by the manner of his purchase but also the dinghy had a serial number on it which made it instantly traceable . |
| 4 | Colbert had an ego robust enough to stand a lot of punishment . |
| 5 | This man Gennaro obviously has a lot of influence even among the less desirable characters in this city , or at least in this part of it . |
| 6 | Er it obviously has a lot in common with other inner city areas . |
| 7 | As 9 is one that obviously needs a lot of work and a lot of thought on it . |
| 8 | You can do much of the remaining internal work yourself , not only saving a lot of money on labour charges , but a considerable sum in VAT at the current rate of 17.5% . |
| 9 | The humour is clever — daft but not really slap-stick — and the writers obviously put a lot of time into making sure it works . |
| 10 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
| 11 | ‘ You obviously know a lot about writing , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 13 | He had obviously spent a lot of money on them and he felt cheated . |
| 14 | The children had obviously spent a lot of time on them . ’ |
| 15 | Also bear in mind that the eventual target speed for this is around 160 bpm for each crotchet , which for most people will obviously take a lot of practice to achieve . |
| 16 | They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service . |
| 17 | Clint obviously derives a lot of inspiration from West Coast rock and although their look is a quarter of a century out-of-date here the gigs unveil a few Inspiral imitators . |
| 18 | Officials say more caution when buying could not only save a lot of trouble but just perhaps your life as well . |
| 19 | You obviously did a lot of work for that . |
| 20 | We 've all drunk a lot of alcohol . |
| 21 | Perhaps in societies where women in the extended family or tribe naturally spend a lot of time together , there is a healthier , more relaxed attitude to life . |
| 22 | So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired . |
| 23 | Having just given a lot of money back . |
| 24 | Though the moment of penetration is almost painless , the presence of the botfly causes a lot of irritation , and by the time it has been in residence for three weeks or so , the resulting lump is quite painful . |
| 25 | The young copper rushed bull-like at Sam , swung a terrific right which landed above the head , just displacing a lot of air ; lost his balance , fell to the ground — and as he rolled over quickly to make a scramble to his feet , Sam pounced with his booted feet . |
| 26 | Hitachi says it has already done a lot of work on the application of image recognition techniques , including the development of a method of automatic Table of Contents generation , which uses the detection of changes in colour distribution to distinguish different frames , thus making possible the automatic analysis of camera work . |
| 27 | Young males at this size already show a lot of colour and are noticeably larger than females . |
| 28 | The number of people identified who have made the move to the community was 768 at the last count , up to about September 1988. 526 are included in the evaluation , so we are already getting a lot of information about the potential of community care . |
| 29 | I do n't exactly have a lot of choice . |
| 30 | If you are using a lot of abbreviations in a document keep a note of them beside the keyboard as you can easily produce a lot of nonsense if you accidentally use the wrong abbreviation . |