Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [conj] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 2 | That should help since a lot of people will remember that morning because of the snow . ’ |
| 3 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 4 | Yeah , he used , he used to visit that a lot , |
| 5 | In an ideal world this would mean that a lot of clever people , all anxious to communicate enthusiasm for their subject , would talk helpfully about it to their colleagues . |
| 6 | If we continued with the program you would notice that a lot of the phrases are repeated . |
| 7 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 8 | And I 'm just want to draw your attention very quickly and I will emphasize that a lot of the information you 're hearing from me are in a brief sense , will be more than adequately covered when |
| 9 | Those familiar with writing software for microprocessor controlled systems will know that a lot of development goes into the process . |
| 10 | That 's deliberately because the programme is a tight one and you ca n't fit everything in all the time , but we 'll refer to this at several different points particularly talking about press releases a little bit later this morning , and also you we will find that a lot of the general comments we 're made making apply to press situations , talking to journalists in general , and writing articles for from that point of view also . |
| 11 | I mean I can see that a lot of people I mean I think that we should thank our men and women who were in the Gulf , of course we should , erm I 'm questioning only the way that we 've chosen to do it , by a victory parade . |