Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 2 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 3 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 4 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 5 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 6 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 7 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 8 | For a minority there was disappointment : ‘ Well , it was all very interesting , I found out a lot about what other staff think . |
| 9 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 10 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 11 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 12 | Just very briefly Mel I suspect perhaps a lot of women would stand if conditions in parliament were more |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 14 | I know quite a lot about his work and his reputation , and am quite proud of him , but I do n't expect ever to exchange one word with him . |
| 15 | ‘ I know quite a lot about it . |
| 16 | I like really a lot of change in the week . |
| 17 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
| 18 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 19 | Oh , yes , Luke whatever you might say , I gathered quite a lot of hard facts from Elise 's diaries . ’ |
| 20 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 21 | I took up a lot of my daffs and started , erm erm I never take them up every year |
| 22 | When it comes to riding a bike , a child does n't say , ‘ Well , I fell over a lot when I was learning to walk , so maybe I wo n't bother with a bike . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 24 | Like I said , I do quite a lot of other stuff as well and for that I use things like little Fender amps , and I 've got a Peavey Profex which I use with a MIDI foot controller . |
| 25 | I give lectures in the autumn , I do quite a lot of management seminars and inspirational speaking at sales conferences . |
| 26 | When I was in Hawaii I practised for eight or nine hours a day ; now I practise a lot less , but I do so a lot more efficiently and effectively . |
| 27 | I do n't know oh cos I do n't know , I think so a lot noisier than usual in here . |
| 28 | In fact , I think quite a lot of them took it to heart . |
| 29 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 30 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |