Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to look smart so I tend to wear a lot of jackets with trousers or skirts . |
| 2 | We normally expect to see a lot of people on a Friday but they 're just not coming through the doors |
| 3 | ‘ You want to know a lot about them , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | Of course we want to generate a lot of sales and to broaden the market for fiction with our customers , but the whole point of the promotion is to widen the market for authors who have n't previously broken through . |
| 5 | ‘ At home , I want to sleep a lot of the time . |
| 6 | When you want to contact a lot of people |
| 7 | If the air traffic controllers want to save a lot of anguish then they should close for the night . |
| 8 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 9 | I want to have a lot of money in the bank . |
| 10 | Career : Expect to spend a lot of time being told exactly what to do . |
| 11 | ‘ I expect to make a lot of money , ’ she said coolly , sitting down to pour . |
| 12 | Others again , like Mr Luzhin , Dunya Raskolnikov 's middle-aged suitor , want to make a lot of money : there 's a Dick Whittington side to Petersburg . |
| 13 | You can take a B A I E examination without being a member of the association at any level because I 've said that what we should do is we should insist because Napier want to bring a lot of students in on this |
| 14 | This means it 's good for applications where you 're collecting data by picking from prepared lists ( surveys , insurance claims , and so on ) , and poor if you want to enter a lot of text and numbers using the pen . |
| 15 | We hope to spend a lot of our time there . |
| 16 | ‘ You seem to know a lot about teasing , young lady . |
| 17 | ‘ You seem to know a lot about it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You seem to know a lot about other people 's affairs so you probably know that this house is partly mine . |
| 19 | ‘ We all know that XR3s and Cossies seem to attract a lot of unwanted attention , but I feel I 'm paying too much insurance on what is a Plain Jane family saloon , ’ he says . |
| 20 | You dress to impress , the clothes you wear say a lot for you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You seem to do a lot of classics . ’ |
| 22 | The Mad Axe 's very impressive acoustic sustain helps a lot on clean settings , and for rich , Knopfler-type sounds the pickups are voiced just about right . |
| 23 | ‘ You seem to place a lot of trust in Victoria . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Looking at the controls on the Crate — seven band graphic equaliser , limiter , pre-shape — you seem to get a lot for your dosh ! ’ £369 in this case … comments ? |
| 25 | They seem to have a lot of fun . ’ |
| 26 | We seem to have a lot of dirty tissues and stuff . |
| 27 | Just never seems to be , we never seem to have a lot of time . |
| 28 | What matters is the contemporary nature of Saunders ' claims , not in abstraction but , because at a superficial level they , in common with similar work by Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) , Bauman ( 1987 ) , Pahl ( 1984 , 1985 ) and particularly Gorz ( 1982 ) , seem to make a lot of descriptive sense . |
| 29 | You stand to make a lot of money . |
| 30 | They te it , they tend to do a lot like in the holidays and half term , when they can get together , because obviously there are other demands on them with Brownies and Guides and stuff like that . |