Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [adv] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But there were rather a lot of people about at the moorings this morning . |
| 2 | There were also a lot of different birds and animals . |
| 3 | But there were also a lot of people who felt that the presence of er of police in twos and threes , actually inflamed problems in the flats rather than cooled them down . |
| 4 | I mean there were obviously a lot of things I could criticize . |
| 5 | ‘ There were obviously a lot of people there when it took place . |
| 6 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 7 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 8 | We both really enjoyed this old house in the Kimbolton Road , for as well as us there were quite a lot of folk from the BBC . |
| 9 | There were quite a lot of people in and around the pool , all suntanned and all drinking the Sunday morning liveners — Bloody Marys , boilermakers , highballs , iced beer . |
| 10 | There were quite a lot of shorts in the collection , taking the place of the recently fashionable short skirts . |
| 11 | There was a sort of host who dished out the sherry and took each new arrival round the groups ; though as there were quite a lot of us he could n't remember all our names so we were forced to say them . |
| 12 | And also I used to notice that there were quite a lot of em empty window , you know , in the flats , and erm you know I just got a feeling that this was really where I I found that I would be able to work , or that I wanted to work . |
| 13 | She was quite near the plane now and there were quite a lot of newspaper photographers around her , but she did not stop walking . |
| 14 | I only came into the room and I switched it on and i there were quite a lot of recriminations with people who |
| 15 | And of course after the war broke up , there were quite a lot of X W D lorries , lorries on the market and they were converted into a erm charabancs which was an open bus as it were . |
| 16 | When I was a little girl , there were quite a lot of other little girls who used to come and play , but now … " |
| 17 | There were quite a lot of parents that Robert did not recognize . |
| 18 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 19 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 20 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 21 | There were quite a lot of loss right enough . |
| 22 | There were quite a lot of enthusiastic er audience but er they were mostly grey beards like me . |
| 23 | Everyone knew that there were still a lot of prisoners in the surrounding country ; but only relatively few , those who were not Fascists , knew exactly where they were . |
| 24 | There were still a lot of men about , and a few lanterns , so that you could see dimly . |
| 25 | There was evidently a lot of preliminary discussion about the scheme among staff in schools , with only 5 per cent saying that there was only little . |
| 26 | There was also a lot of Richard Strauss , which his Rosenkavalier at Cardiff in February would have capped . |
| 27 | There was also a lot of resistance to moving from the church to a new permanent home . |
| 28 | There was also a lot of superficial damage by birds , mostly seagulls . |
| 29 | There was also a lot of talk about ‘ comfort zones ’ — not an euphemism for toilet areas in a motorway service station — but something we were all meant to feel guilty about ( in an oddly comfortable sort of way ) . |
| 30 | On his final outing there was also a lot to like about his fourth to desert Secret and Geisway in the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot . |