Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More Antony 's personality seemed to change quite a lot in the play , his true , selfish colours came out in this speech . |
| 2 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 3 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 4 | ‘ Had to help out a lot at home , did you ? ’ he asked unsympathetically . |
| 5 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 6 | Sunset had been grand but remote , like listening to a radio signal from some distant country with only a weak transmitter : when a surfer caught a wave or came to grief , you had to filter out a lot of static and strain to follow what was happening . |
| 7 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 8 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 9 | Clarissa had to summon up a lot of courage , but she rang Charity 's door bell . |