Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that I laughed a lot , and that Will said it was a stupid play , with not a word of poetry in it . |
| 2 | Well I understand that I mean a lot of people do that . |
| 3 | Well thing is that I mean a lot of these jobs , I mean er yeah they recognize that , I mean a lot of them yo they think you 're as thick as shit and treat you like you 're as thick as shit just because you 're doing a thick as shit job but you know they ca n't necessarily give you more |
| 4 | I must admit that I chew a lot of gum |
| 5 | I 'd hate you to think it was all a ‘ donation' from me , and so I enclose my sponsorship form ( which I did n't realise I should have posted with the cheque ) to show that I had a lot of generous sponsors . |
| 6 | Let's just say that I had a lot of time to learn things — about survival in terrible times , and camouflage , and new ways of living . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I mean , at times yo , I can , looking back now I can say that I learnt a lot . |
| 9 | One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions . |
| 10 | Well one subject that I think a lot of us shy away from , is mental illness . |
| 11 | The other side of that is that I think a lot of dons are increasingly concerned at the level of alcohol consumption and the sort of behaviour that can emerge as a result of it , you know I do sense that many of us think it 's a real problem . |
| 12 | I 'm bound to say that I meet a lot of people who praise me for speaking up , but do n't speak up themselves . |
| 13 | I found that I gained a lot of strength from all this regular correspondence with people and , four years on , I now feel much more myself again , although of course I still miss my husband tremendously . |
| 14 | The fact that I wrote the book may have suggested that I spoke a lot about private things , but that is not really what I mean by privacy in one 's life . |
| 15 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 16 | It is great to be around friends who have never had a weight problem and find that I have a lot more energy than them and certainly a lot more breath ! |
| 17 | Completely new to the Company , I know that I have a lot to learn and I 'd particularly like to thank for her help during the changeover . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I can see that I have a lot to learn . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself . |
| 20 | So I thought I do n't have a lot of money in flat , not that I have a lot , but we like it out of way do n't we ? |
| 21 | Not that I have a lot to worry about . |
| 22 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 23 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 24 | I know that she spent a lot of time writing alone in her room ; and when Anne was at home , she and Emily often talked and wrote about the world of Gondal together . |
| 25 | Carolyn gathered that she spent a lot of time at the Refuge . |
| 26 | ‘ Mia 's fine , ’ said Dustin , ‘ except that she talks a lot about meditation . |
| 27 | Faith immediately admitted that she finds a lot of advice about healthy eating plain confusing : ‘ It 's very difficult sifting through all the information that 's pushed at parents and weighing up what 's really important . |
| 28 | Well it was something that you hear a lot about it and er I 've never done anything about it and it 's cos I 'm starting to think towards the future and it 's gon na be nice to know that I 'm gon na have a pound or two to go and do what I want when I retire . |
| 29 | Er this is this is the one that you get a lot . |
| 30 | One of the points you 're making there which is an excellent one , and a very strong point , is the fact that you get a lot of incoming calls which we encourage , |