Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a lot [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kenneth Graham did come to visit quite a lot between 1880 and 1910 . ) |
| 5 | Some royal anniversary , death , separation or divorce was being made the excuse to trot out a lot of cheap old newsreel footage , but it did n't matter what was on . |
| 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 | Obviously , you have to wear quite a lot of protective clothing to minimise the risk of getting injured . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | When the time comes , as it certainly will , for a Labour Government to introduce quite a lot of progressive legislation that the country desperately needs , I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends will wish to oppose it . |