Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] a lot " in BNC.

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1 As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world .
2 They had the glue had the glue they did a lot of gluing I suppose fixing on the material
3 All to do with the s I mean th the Dock Commission they claimed a lot of money off the Corporation I think over that cos they
4 the South of France they said in the paper they eat a lot of butter or cook a lot
5 He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’
6 Artistically they felt out of their depth here , but when it came to spending the town 's money they knew a lot more than Herr Busacher did .
7 yard with a a apparently they have er , a lot of in the summer they do a lot of er whatever they 're doing out there .
8 Once they began talking about their lives and history they had a lot to offer .
9 that handed their book out to everybody because that way they got a lot of shares .
10 The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions .
11 Through that system they learn a lot about agriculture and the farm stock as well as technology skills and when they make a farm visit are well prepared for what they are going to see .
12 It 's interesting because I was in Nottingham a few weeks ago and actually on Nottingham market they sell a lot of goat meat
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