Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 2 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 3 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 4 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 5 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 6 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 7 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 8 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 9 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 10 | Just very briefly Mel I suspect perhaps a lot of women would stand if conditions in parliament were more |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 12 | I know quite a lot about his work and his reputation , and am quite proud of him , but I do n't expect ever to exchange one word with him . |
| 13 | ‘ I know quite a lot about it . |
| 14 | I like really a lot of change in the week . |
| 15 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 16 | Oh , yes , Luke whatever you might say , I gathered quite a lot of hard facts from Elise 's diaries . ’ |
| 17 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 19 | Like I said , I do quite a lot of other stuff as well and for that I use things like little Fender amps , and I 've got a Peavey Profex which I use with a MIDI foot controller . |
| 20 | I give lectures in the autumn , I do quite a lot of management seminars and inspirational speaking at sales conferences . |
| 21 | When I was in Hawaii I practised for eight or nine hours a day ; now I practise a lot less , but I do so a lot more efficiently and effectively . |
| 22 | I do n't know oh cos I do n't know , I think so a lot noisier than usual in here . |
| 23 | In fact , I think quite a lot of them took it to heart . |
| 24 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 25 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |
| 26 | erm people were starting to move out , and I think that , I think quite a lot of people , well although they 'd had a lot of information from the Local Authority , were still very unsure about how that would affect other benefits , in particular supplementary benefits , and single payments , and that , that , grants for , for the furniture , that kind of thing . |
| 27 | I think quite a lot of it , erm , books have n't mentioned this er frustrated erm feeling in the grant is that she 's come out |
| 28 | I think quite a lot of the students are sleeping on friend 's floors and they 're not ever counted amongst the statistics . |
| 29 | I have seen away supporters being chased up the road into Pleck Park and but erm I think basically a lot of the trouble used to be caused by drink and now they do n't have any drink in the ground they er they , they seem to have cracked that one . |
| 30 | I mean I I certainly accept that I mean I think there a lot of problems on the in the stage door club several nights of the years . |