Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 2 | either we want like a lot of money , |
| 3 | So , as you say in a lot of your articles , it 's social-sciences , teachers , users , actual utility users that love the work , whereas the photographic intelligentsia or the ‘ counter-culturalists ’ have found it , in a perverse way , too usable and too located . |
| 4 | That 's what I say to a lot of people today , they moan about dockers but they 're only fighting for their rights . |
| 5 | They relax with a lot of skiing , the favourite off-bike way of keeping fit . |
| 6 | ‘ We thought elegance and sophistication was n't quite enough , so we put in a lot of new stuff we 're going to use on tour . ’ |
| 7 | A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Because I listen to a lot of jazz and classical music and the others listen to harder stuff , I find it a challenge to try and incorporate my influences into what we do , ’ Adam enthuses , dropping in the expression ‘ be-bop hardcore ’ to pinpoint his guitar quirks . |
| 9 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 10 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 11 | Yeah but ah then again why I mean like a lot of people have do n't have actual they have n't got money but they they sort of choose to have money tied up in property , though it do n't mean to say you 're wealthy just because you 've got a big house does it ? |
| 12 | It does n't er really sort of er er in a sense prevent er or mitigate against a lot of a lot of developments in the countryside . |
| 13 | well perhaps you know we 'll be able to find out for oursel , if a hundred Scottish women with two thousand seem like a lot of money . |
| 14 | And you could say I get about a lot without meeting anybody . |
| 15 | Nero has ordered ten thousand hides as they get through a lot of shoe leather with all that clomping . |
| 16 | I know about Lori ; I know about a lot of other things . |
| 17 | It 's funny how you get into A lot of people are like that . |
| 18 | The deeper the soil , the better : few kinds thrive on shallow soils , and drought can be a problem on light sandy ground unless you dig in a lot of organic material . |
| 19 | who are inclined to impose their choice on the bride and groom in a lot of cases ? |
| 20 | Okay well there 's something we talk about a lot on the Action Line they 're called Fast Forward and they 're a training agency . |
| 21 | And I do n't know anybody that addicts , I deal with a lot of addicts , and a lot of families and it all started on cannabis so , you should nah talk about legalizing any drug ! |
| 22 | I 'm gon na make this work , I 'm not rushing into it , I 'm , I rush into a lot of things |
| 23 | But er I suppose in a lot of senses it could been worse . |
| 24 | I talk to a lot of people about ‘ the train option ’ , i.e. the option of going somewhere by train rather than car . |
| 25 | Armed with this information , talk to a lot of different lending companies and see who can offer the best deal . |
| 26 | I go through a lot of open doors in Paris and meet a lot of different people , and I can tell you there is a swift , black current running underneath all that smiling diplomacy . |
| 27 | I bump into a lot of people at conferences , so I have n't been able to write formally to thank you for the meeting because I do n't want anything on the record then |
| 28 | And also bought out the insurance company fire brigades where , when you go round a lot of the older buildings in our towns and cities today and even villages , you will find an insurance plaque or an insurance mark on the side of the house or the building concerned . |
| 29 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 30 | He has no financial obligation towards you , unless you go to a lot of trouble to prove otherwise , and that could take years . |