Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | These originated in Northern Italy , where the pasta is traditionally flat and where they use a lot more egg and cream in their cooking . |
| 2 | They went back down the garden and after that out to a couple of pubs where they drank a lot and Rufus had to drive back to Wyvis Hall with one eye closed on account of getting double vision . |
| 3 | At PFK we 've also used them under gravel and growing media ( where they maintain a lot of their thickness depth despite the pressure ) to encourage good plant rooting . |
| 4 | In the spring of 1942 , Major Gus March-Phillips , Major J. Geoffrey Appleyard , who served with 7 Commando in the autumn of 1940 , and Captain Graham Hayes had the SSRF in training at Wareham ( Dorset ) , where they did a lot of boat work , especially in dories . |
| 5 | But I 'll give you the chrome for £25 'cause I got a lot of them . |
| 6 | I did n't box , although I had a lot of fights at school . |
| 7 | Acting is not a profession where you can simply stroll on — although I know a lot of fine actors have done that . |
| 8 | I included it in the painting , although I anticipated a lot of problems because of the great difference in values between the model and the light . |
| 9 | I included it in the painting , although I anticipated a lot of problems because of the great difference in values between the model and the light . |
| 10 | Although I hate a lot of people there , that 's where all my friends are . |
| 11 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 12 | I was aware of the enormous distances , especially for those in the West , although I learned a lot more about this simply be being there . |
| 13 | I realised that many did drugs , so I spent a lot of time in the drug community before hand , so that once I hooked up with the women I could move back and forth . |
| 14 | The phrasing of Japanese , Indian and Chinese music really fascinated me , so I spent a lot of time studying what made that music work . |
| 15 | I mean , Mick has maybe a deeper one in a narrower area , so I learned a lot from him . |
| 16 | Now suddenly it 's happened , so you get a lot of new people coming in . |
| 17 | Right so you know a lot of these so there 's another way of making an A sound is n't it there 's this A I sail and mail and snail and things like that . |
| 18 | ‘ Once you have a lot of patience I think in the end you 'll get what you want . |
| 19 | And we have branches , but we could have a lot more because the amount of branches we have , although we have a lot of branches of Scottish Old Age Pensions we are not old age pensioners are not united , they 're not united , the only way they can be united , if it 's a national organization , join your national organization and fight the government . |
| 20 | Although we did a lot of PR , mounted a big advertising campaign , it worked because the booksellers were enthusiastic from the start . |
| 21 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 22 | My father will go to the cash and carry every week , and perhaps he 'll pop into into Tesco 's or something and get a few bits and pieces , so we got a lot in the fridge , but it 's not a lot of variety . |
| 23 | There are also plenty of indoor training sessions where I teach the team , so we see a lot of each other . |
| 24 | ‘ They ca n't talk yet , ’ I explained patiently , ‘ although they understand a lot . ’ |
| 25 | They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production . |
| 26 | As a final point it is worth reiterating that , although it takes a lot of time and intellectual effort to derive an acceptable information model using the MINSE approach , the model is independent of the actual form that the information takes in the real situation , and will remain valid until such time as the role of the organisation undergoes a fundamental change . |
| 27 | The way I see it , although it takes a lot to laugh , it takes a train to cry . |
| 28 | Erm greetings and appropriate sociability although it flowed a lot of it was actually sort of statements and or closed questions . |
| 29 | ‘ So he had a lot going for him . ’ |
| 30 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |