Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I admit that I 've said a lot of things in the deliberate hope of hurting or humiliating you , and that was one of them . ’ |
| 2 | That priest trying to take a curse off that I 've heard a lot of excuses , half are bloody mad . |
| 3 | No it 's just that I 've got a lot of trousers up there that are far too big for me now that might fit him |
| 4 | Well I understand that you get fifteen , it 's just that I 've got a lot of customer where I got business that is depending on the kind of insurance that we give them , based on what our |
| 5 | My ex-wife would go around telling extraordinary stories about me to people , and I discovered that I 'd lost a lot of friends . |
| 6 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 7 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 8 | I always do my best , run my heart out , give one hundred per cent for the athletics fans , and I like to believe that they in turn appreciate that , as well as the fact that I do run a lot in Britain . |
| 9 | What he meant was that you had to cover a lot of ground to find anything newsworthy . |
| 10 | Have you found that you 've got a lot of things to change and alter ? |
| 11 | ‘ In fact it 's quite a good position to be in , ’ she says , ‘ in that you do have a lot of control over your future . |
| 12 | This means that you need to take a lot of time and trouble measuring up . |
| 13 | She said , I do n't care whether you are at university , there are certain areas that you need to know a lot more background before you can do it at this level . |
| 14 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 15 | ‘ Another thing that we 've had a lot of use from was the baby bouncer ; it 's the type that hangs on the door frame . |
| 16 | We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’ |
| 17 | Chairman I have an amendment to that motion , because , because I believe it 's important that we start to identify a lot of councils publish at the end of the year for public consumption a list of the allowances drawn by members , and I think that would be very useful and I would make , as an amendment , I would , would add to the proposal put by Mr that we call for a report to be pu er , to be presented to us of the amounts of allowances drawn by members , each member |
| 18 | So there 's a kind of critical period here , that we have got a lot of information about . |
| 19 | We 're still limited by sexism , but at the same time we 're bombarded with images telling us that we have to achieve a lot . |
| 20 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 21 | ’ … told me , ’ said Tessa 's voice hours or minutes later , ‘ that they 've borrowed a lot of money from the bank to do some conversion work in their flat . ’ |
| 22 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 23 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 24 | Reflecting , Chris thought that they had learnt a lot about working as a team . |
| 25 | But it was er er I mean i it 's clear that the policy was , was successful in that they do mobilize a lot of peasants and , and they |
| 26 | " The problem with pots , though , is that they do need a lot of care . |
| 27 | But even now , having gone through that process , they would not see men as the enemy , they feel that they do have a lot in common , for example , with maybe the conception of women organising in National Liberation struggles that was mentioned earlier . |
| 28 | It was , she realised with astonishment , his version of an apology , and she had a feeling that it had taken a lot out of him to say it . |
| 29 | Not that it seemed to make a lot of difference . |
| 30 | Sunsoft admits that it has to do a lot more work modifying Solaris 2.0 for Intel than it thought . |