Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb mod] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | A big bream should be weighed immediately it is caught , for these fish can lose a lot of weight in a short time in a keepnet or keepsack . |
| 2 | People used to lose a lot of time for that . |
| 3 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 4 | Well , we could grow fruit trees ; fruits that people would pay a lot for , not just maize and potatoes . ’ |
| 5 | And then , plenty of people would give a lot to live on the Reach . " |
| 6 | If this was the case our staff would need a lot of shares and the ear of a possibly extinct breed of Bank Manager ! |
| 7 | People will pay a lot if they think the big ones are in a certain stretch of water . ’ |
| 8 | In my experience people will forgive a lot of things , but not being beaten at their own game by someone they 've always looked upon as a caricature . ’ |
| 9 | What we call the public relations interview , which is often a radio interview but can take different forms , is a situation in which you have an opportunity , in a fairly low-key way , to sell something , to promote something , to get a message across , and if you are successful , you can find that the media will do a lot of your hard work for you in this area . |
| 10 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |