Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |
| 2 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 3 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 4 | It can expect to pick up a lot of support both from mainstream Solidarity and from the squabbling peasants ' parties . |
| 5 | If you 're getting married later in the year , this is a time when you and your partner will need to sort out a lot of practical and emotional matters between you . |
| 6 | ‘ Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one . |
| 7 | The Committee have been able to smooth out a lot of anxieties on this item , although it is impossible to make everyone happy on such a diverse subject . |
| 8 | and he would be only able to pick out a lot of the basic words , he could probably pick out the beginning of appreciation |
| 9 | Erm , if you erm , maybe erase part of entries of the spreadsheet , you think , oh that 's going to free up a lot of memory , er , probably it wo n't . |
| 10 | ‘ Had to help out a lot at home , did you ? ’ he asked unsympathetically . |
| 11 | Two banks were persuaded to put up a lot of money , so that by the time Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C came to consider the action , the loans including interest totalled around £40M . |
| 12 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 13 | Er , one thing that tends to use up a lot of memory , is when you insert columns on the left of the spreadsheets . |
| 14 | Some royal anniversary , death , separation or divorce was being made the excuse to trot out a lot of cheap old newsreel footage , but it did n't matter what was on . |
| 15 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 16 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 17 | Ammonia , a molecule formed by nitrogen and hydrogen , seems unpromising as an analogue of water , but methane , formed by carbon and hydrogen , would seem to hold out a lot of hope . |
| 18 | Sunset had been grand but remote , like listening to a radio signal from some distant country with only a weak transmitter : when a surfer caught a wave or came to grief , you had to filter out a lot of static and strain to follow what was happening . |
| 19 | It is tuition for her and helps her to get over a lot of barriers about performing live in front of demanding and sometimes difficult audiences . |
| 20 | But you do n't need to pay out a lot of money : a large , lidded Tupperware box with enough room for four bottles and teats , disinfected with plain sterilising tablets and changed daily , will do . |
| 21 | Though he did not dictate , he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said . |
| 22 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 23 | We also plug West Cumbria and this is helping to bring in a lot of tourism to the whole region . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 25 | Clarissa had to summon up a lot of courage , but she rang Charity 's door bell . |
| 26 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 27 | But one would have to cut out a lot of the nature stuff . |