Example sentences of "i [verb] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked a lot of people . |
| 2 | It 's worth mentioning that I asked a lot of people in Spain , when I was there , at the Spanish you know what they knew about it , and nobody did . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh yes ’ she said , ‘ I made a lot of money in dogs . |
| 4 | I made a lot of friends and was introduced to the wonders of television for the first time . |
| 5 | I made a lot of new friends , some of whom are still in touch . |
| 6 | I made a lot of very good friends . |
| 7 | ‘ I made a lot of lateral moves in middle management and gained much generic experience , ’ he explains . |
| 8 | I remember being podgy , no make-up , an unsmart lady but I made a lot of noise and he seemed to like that . ’ |
| 9 | Erm it was good , I made a lot of progress in it . |
| 10 | It was a hard life , but I made a lot of money . ’ |
| 11 | I made a lot of friends at Bullwood Hall . |
| 12 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 13 | I must tell you that once , fifteen years ago or so , I made a lot of money . |
| 14 | It was great socially , too , I made a lot of friends . |
| 15 | I made a lot of mistakes but I owned up to them and was starting to play pretty well . |
| 16 | You know , you should stay at home and have at least eight babies — it 's incredibly difficult , I mean a lot of parents would disagree whole heartedly with what I tell the girls . |
| 17 | Well it sounds blissful , but of course I mean a lot of terrible things happen in the name of love including crimes , crimes of passion as there romantically called in France , I mean people have killed for love , yes . |
| 18 | And er I think , I I agree , I agree with a lot of the demands that feminist women have made but , to kind of congregate it in that way , it 's bu , I mean a lot of wha er , white feminists have been attacked for excluding black women , and that 's one of the examples where you know , to be , to say that you 're a feminist , it 's not just men that you 're alienating , you 're also alienating other way . |
| 19 | Well I mean a lot of it ca n't be measured you know ? |
| 20 | And some , some of their fa , I mean , if they 're lucky enough to have families who do help them that , er that , that 's fine , but I mean a lot of them do n't have anybody at all , and they really have to pay their gas , electric , rent , poll tax , off an absolute pittance ! |
| 21 | Yeah I get I mean I get the impression if you 're thinking about you know , the thefts from the people , I mean a lot of the time is the guy who 's visiting the prostitute , does n't report to us if his wallet 's been stolen , for the simple fact he was visiting a prostitute . |
| 22 | Because er I mean a lot of children these days , I think about my parents , it 's their money , they spend it , and I do n't really see that it 's important for it to be passed on to us , but in the case of a large estate , it becomes more important , if you 're looking at sort of two hundred three hundred thousand estate , then there 's going to be a lot of erm er asset value which would be taxable . |
| 23 | I feel that very strongly , I mean a lot of people have said , a lot of people in the flats have said , well I do n't want to move out of the area , I do n't like living in the flats , but I do n't want to move out of the . |
| 24 | I mean a lot of people who live on the do n't go into town at all . |
| 25 | It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right . |
| 26 | Well this came up actually on a on a radio sho er chat thing that was open to the public in Blaenau Ffestiniog last night er where the chair was saying erm well you know I mean a lot of the a lot of the people that have n't been very involved in this strike that I think should have been involved . |
| 27 | I take part of a thesis and I think I mean a lot of it is is very very important in terms of even considering internment , in relation to the whole intelligence problem . |
| 28 | It 's all about technical stuff I mean a lot of you do technical training . |
| 29 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 30 | Well I understand that I mean a lot of people do that . |