Example sentences of "take [adv] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means we could take away a lot of your rights and make many decisions about your child without you being involved . |
| 2 | Our craft members are in danger of being poached by the A W E U. An amalgamation may not be some people 's ideal , but it will take away a lot of the friction between the two unions . |
| 3 | I would have thought romance would take up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 4 | An office or interview room can take up a lot of expensive display space . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 6 | Words such as ‘ unsown ’ and ‘ snow ’ or ‘ star ’ and ‘ stir ’ , along with many others like each other in this way make this a poem without the reader being aware of any rhyme which would take out a lot of the emotion . |
| 7 | Now , a lot of those frustrations would be alleviated by the fact that our callers go through a switchboard , who will take out a lot of the frustrations by doing some detective work before the call actually gets to you . |
| 8 | I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know . |
| 9 | many improvements will not be instantly achievable — most will take time and some will take quite a lot of time ; |
| 10 | Er er what the honourable gentleman , my honourable friend reads out is certainly my view er we will erm of course engage in any discussions on this subject that come up i in the council of ministers but it would take quite a lot of convincing I think to myself and my colleagues , that any other form of election would be an improvement on first past the post , erm and er the ar , no I wo n't give way cos I have about four minutes left and er I do want to make a couple of other points . |