Example sentences of "[was/were] a lot [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it were a lot of money , a a lot of money , and they pay a lot of benefits out of that now because the old man used to have it you see ? |
| 2 | They were a lot of money . |
| 3 | he says for cost price , our Kim says well it were a lot of money that bed and we 've only just got it |
| 4 | I think it were a lot of money |
| 5 | Well she used to have to give some give somebody sixpence which were a lot of money in them days . |
| 6 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
| 7 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 8 | She could not see how much was in the scarf , only that there were a lot of pound coins among the others . |
| 9 | And we had to move all them , there were a lot of hooha about it in the paper about what , a year ago ? |
| 10 | And that was pretty , it was , it 'd vary in , in some cases but in som it was worse than that and some were better than that , but generally speaking there were a lot of unemployment . |
| 11 | I mean there were a lot of county councillors huffing and puffing . |
| 12 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 13 | He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time . |
| 14 | They were a lot of car for the money , too , remember , with character and a few of the rough edges that are inevitable with a true specialist car . |
| 15 | And er now this chap him a wan he he was about ninety and him and his pal , they said , Well we 'll lie in the , there were a lot of bull rushes , we 'll lie in these bull rushes , he says , And we 'll throw bricks at them as they go by , at these two police and er this blackleg . |
| 16 | There were a lot of street girls and petty criminals , he called them his pros and cons , but one of them had seen my daughter Pippa a week earlier in a cafeteria somewhere near . |
| 17 | There was a lot at stake for both clubs , but we just did n't perform and I 'm very disappointed . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There was a lot of repetition . |
| 19 | Erm our view was that there are erm problems associated with er an inner relief road and one of one of those problems was the amount of traffic that would pass through End at Knaresborough , there was a lot of concern as we spelt out to members in our er committee report that erm traffic erm along Forest Lane Head towards Knaresborough along the A existing A fifty nine corridor , would actually increase over the do nothing situation . |
| 20 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 21 | ‘ This was at a time when there was a lot of unpleasantness shown to people with AIDS , ’ he said in an interview with The Mail on Sunday . |
| 22 | well there was a lot of call for that . |
| 23 | Cos there was a lot of sand and gravel just under the sus sus suspension bridge on the right hand side then , and it would go sl gradually sloping towards the middle without being too deep . |
| 24 | When James and I got married there was a lot of publicity . |
| 25 | Cliftonville manager Frankie Parks put it like this : ‘ There was a lot of frustration on the day but the better side won . |
| 26 | People er I mean th they could n't help a lot because they 'd got nothing themselves a lot of them but there was a lot of help done without any fuss or bother , I mean er er a bloke 'd say er , have you got a fag ? |
| 27 | ‘ It was a raucous noise but there was a lot of excitement and it was great . |
| 28 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 29 | There was a lot of noise and some anticipation . |
| 30 | Why would n't he like it ? said Mr Rose , and Marcus said the idea frightened him , he would be trapped , there was a lot of noise , he just would n't like it . |