Example sentences of "getting a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fantasized about having her certified and getting a lot of sympathy . |
| 2 | Everthorpe was getting a lot of mileage out of the mix-up , trying to make him look foolish . |
| 3 | by getting a lot of attention ( the fuss , palaver and ‘ audience reaction ’ of a tantrum following defiance ) . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're getting a lot of interference , ’ he said . |
| 5 | And back we come to poor old Katie Mallett , who seems to be getting a lot of airtime for not even entering . |
| 6 | Alas , they 'll be getting a lot more as a result of the Telegraph 's scoop . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's so many of us out there and we 're getting a lot of exposure , but we 're not moving . |
| 8 | The use sales jargon , the BlowerVac has a very high perceived value , meaning it looks as if you are getting a lot of machine for your £120 . |
| 9 | The auction houses were very successful in getting a lot of pictures in recent years , but there were a series of auctions with a very high buy-in rate , and pictures were getting publicly burned . |
| 10 | They should be getting a lot of work through the Channel Tunnel project . |
| 11 | And I 'm pretty sure you 'll be getting a lot of spellings right soon . |
| 12 | The number of people identified who have made the move to the community was 768 at the last count , up to about September 1988. 526 are included in the evaluation , so we are already getting a lot of information about the potential of community care . |
| 13 | And the different stages of ages , the cure rates are getting a lot better . |
| 14 | Your o your chances are n't getting better , they 're getting a lot worse |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been getting a lot of flak about fighting in Spain and I did n't want Anne to get any . |
| 16 | Er I keep getting a lot of headaches and I think it 's with the hacking and coughing I 'm doing . |
| 17 | The industry is also getting a lot more respect from outside than it used to , Mr Hirst believes . |
| 18 | Also getting a lot of media attention was the National Study of Childhood Cancer , which is going to look at a number of background environmental factors in all children 's cancers during the next five years . |
| 19 | Now … it 's getting a lot more complicated . |
| 20 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 21 | Whether or not Crosland actually shared this view of the universities it is possible , as Carswell points out , to deduce from Crosland 's 1965 Woolwich speech that the universities were somehow ‘ placed in isolation , seeking after truth , persuing learning for its own sake , and getting a lot of money for it ’ . |
| 22 | Yes but you 're getting at a you 're going to get a lot of the baddies who 've missed it , you are getting a lot of the baddies now , |
| 23 | Er our only problem is that some of our housing is concentrated in rather large blocks , and that does put pressure looking for v var variety of sites in the county and we are erm getting a lot of objection for some potential development sites in our area at the present moment . |
| 24 | We had a quite a number at the middle of the outbreak , er , that continuing erm , and some areas have had none , they 're getting a lot . |
| 25 | Children who are caught up in crime are getting a lot of media attention lately . |
| 26 | The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport . |
| 27 | you see that we 're getting a lot behind that sleeper wall in between the packing line and the sleeper wall again . |
| 28 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 29 | they 're certainly getting a lot fitter . |
| 30 | Oxford has four meetings a week … that 's forty four races … and they run all year round … they 're are 48 tracks up and down the country … so a lot of people are getting a lot of enjoyment … |