Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 2 | It 's very violent , there 's people been injured , trucks have been burnt and damaged and a lot of tyres have been spiked and er you know , generally it 's like a riot on , on the border , but the rest of Spain , it 's , it 's fairly peaceful , but all the roads are blockaded ; the drivers only problems are — where they 're getting stopped , is the facilities , they do n't have any . |
| 3 | They want to go along and relax and a lot of women have said that they can relax much more easily in their own , rather than in mixed , company , ’ Prue explains . |
| 4 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 5 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 6 | Now one of the problems is in the Army , that if you do need support , it 's a sign of weakness , it 's a sign of failure , it 's almost impossible for you to get the kind of counselling and help that a lot of young lads need , and I think that a lot of young people in the Army today who maybe have got a lot of worries in their soul , and they do n't have the courage at the moment or the possibility of getting that help because of the Army culture . |
| 7 | Then there was much scuffling and grabbing and a lot of talk regarding which lamppost the rope should be thrown over . |