Example sentences of "it [verb] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press . |
| 2 | Marlon may have got involved in a noble cause , but it got a lot of people 's backs up in the business . |
| 3 | It got a lot of visitors , passing heads , the curious , the indigent , the bombed out , the Hell 's Angels . |
| 4 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |
| 5 | Although Evil has now been banished , paradoxically , with it goes a lot of beauty . |
| 6 | Firstly , it involves a lot of work in terms of planning , preparation and serving the food . |
| 7 | It involves a lot of unnecessary digging , it is time-consuming and exhausting . |
| 8 | ‘ Trouble is , ’ Ralph was saying , ‘ it involves a lot of work , a lot of travelling . |
| 9 | ‘ Because it involves a lot of research — maybe months . |
| 10 | This is the highest badge a Guide can earn and it involves a lot of work . |
| 11 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 12 | The benefits of gardening as a hobby are wide-ranging : it is satisfying as a pastime with a visible end-product , and it offers a lot of opportunities for meeting like-minded people in a pleasant environment . |
| 13 | Korg 's A4 is n't claiming to be the last word in processors , but still it offers a lot for the money . |
| 14 | It made a lot of sense . |
| 15 | It made a lot of sense . |
| 16 | It made a lot of noise for its size , and there was no obvious way of stopping it . |
| 17 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 18 | It was going very fast and it made a lot of noise . |
| 19 | Eleanor , ’ she said again , as she began to realise that it made a lot of sense . |
| 20 | Well it involved a lot of things a bit of everything . |
| 21 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 22 | But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal . |
| 23 | But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal . |
| 24 | It hideously complicated music and it needs a lot of concentration … |
| 25 | It needs a lot of wind and only performs wide turns . |
| 26 | Brian 's got the prototype but it needs a lot of testing still . ’ |
| 27 | It needs a lot of work , I 'm afraid , but perhaps one day , when our ship comes in … . ’ |
| 28 | I knew they needed watching but you do n't push yourself till you actually see that it needs a lot of watching ! |
| 29 | I promise , but not at the moment cos it needs a lot of setting up , I 'll get myself to set my computer up specially to make those disks |
| 30 | ‘ Or , May — not that it needs a lot of translating , ’ he commented . |