Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] an [adj] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Releasing her , he said , ‘ For someone who 's supposedly about to breathe her last , you appear to have an awful lot to say for yourself . |
| 2 | I seem to get an awful lot of shitty pants — they 're both [ carer 's father and his brother , who live together ] incontinent in their own way … |
| 3 | I seem to get an awful lot of , it 's like |
| 4 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 5 | And a special thanks to all the families of our staff , who know provide an awful lot of support and encouragement . |
| 6 | The parents do contribute an awful lot to the superego but they do n't seem to contribute everything , and the superego remember , is formed by the ego through an active process of identification internalization and there the ego itself is , is a factor and I think mentioned this . |
| 7 | Well as I say I mean we 're doing very well and all the money and , and you know , ninety percent of the money comes out of the the er the members ' pockets really I mean ev even the sub for the open show , we put out a lot of that even the stuff and things like this , so we do provide an awful lot of money . |
| 8 | Where beat officers come into play is where you 've got the non-urgent , what we call , the traffic , the non-urgent jobs , erm , where people can afford , maybe a couple of hours , it might be that they have to wait until the beat officer gets on duty could be a day or so 's time and they they do do an awful lot of work , and it 's an ongoing thing . |
| 9 | But I mean they are there to provide advice and we do get an awful lot of case work . |
| 10 | At the time of creating the formula you 're probably fairly clear about how it works , but several weeks or months later , you 've forgotten an awful lot . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've done an awful lot of work , ’ admitted Faldo at the course where Jack Nicklaus won in 1967 and ‘ 80 . |
| 12 | ‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I 've made an awful lot of cash from the Human League . |
| 13 | It 's getting very very close , and you 've got an awful lot to do . |
| 14 | Kate , you 've got an awful lot to forgive me for , have n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 16 | ‘ As a result , we 've had an awful lot of letters from people saying there 'd been an oversight on their part , ’ says an outwardly cheerful Simpson . |
| 17 | Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot . |
| 18 | Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church . |
| 19 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 20 | Because we 've had we 've spent an awful lot of erm money and time in taking people into the system who say they will have a car when |
| 21 | You 've lost an awful lot of weight |
| 22 | Now that does n't the Kipsigy was just the study of the erm you know it 's a good statistical it 's good hard-hat social science you know with distribution and everything it 's all good stuff , erm they do n't say that , where we do know this is something I have researched myself very carefully , the Australian Aborigines erm we have rich data on this and I 've read an awful lot of it and I compared notes with world authorities like David McKnight and erm erm what 's his name erm Shapiro authority on this , and they agree that er that 's definitely what happens . |
| 23 | I am chickening out cos I do n't feel as if I 've learnt an awful lot . |
| 24 | I think women who are overweight have to work an awful lot harder to prove that they 're just as good |
| 25 | You have to know an awful lot you know for grade five . |
| 26 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |
| 27 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
| 28 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ We have put an awful lot of money into the site . |