Example sentences of "they have a lot [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did they have a lot about the thing this afternoon ? ’
2 Les was happy to show how it should be done … as for the students , they 've a lot of practicing ahead before they put on a circus show for a local school in a couple of weeks time .
3 They had a lot of food , they had good equipment , and they were warm .
4 They had a lot of gardening and planning to do and Mary did not have time to visit Colin that day .
5 As a result , they had a lot of time on their hands .
6 They had not , they said , but they had a lot of reliable relatives and could easily find out where he was and deliver any message I wanted to send him , if he was there .
7 Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could .
8 They had a lot of joiners up from Paisley and they employed a lot of local labour as well .
9 They had a lot of capital payments also and we have as it were the erm , the P & O element er , with B Sky B which is the erm , the items I 've gone through .
10 And they got reckon they were They had a lot of henhouses then they were working a lot hens and there were five or six henhouses all blown to bits and the hens scattered about everywhere .
11 I knew there there they had a lot of trouble with one of them but nearer Helen 's end .
12 They had a lot of stones there
13 But er yes , no it is th I mean they had a lot of business from banks and areas like that
14 Well they had a lot of erm Christmas stuff left anyway .
15 Well I do n't think erm they had a lot of money .
16 No , she wanted some flip flops , but they did n't have any there either , but they had a lot of shell suits , cos I thought it was skiing ones at first .
17 Ooh they had a lot of bangers this morning !
18 But , they had a lot of trouble as the builders took what they like , so , we 've got to watch these , this building .
19 They had a lot in common , and over dinner they talked non-stop about architecture and their interest in British heritage .
20 Some people would say they had a lot in common and no doubt in some ways they have … except I 'm sure that Philippe …
21 They had a lot in common , mostly work , Lindsey acknowledged with a rueful grimace now .
22 I suppose they had a lot in common . ’
23 at a time they had , they had a lot from
24 They have a lot of experience of large parties . ’
25 Together they have a lot of money , so land values are high in most parts of the country .
26 They are capital intensive industries because they have a lot of money invested in machinery and equipment but relatively few workers .
27 It 's the entertainment business and they have a lot of power which they can , and do , abuse . ’
28 But they have a lot of misunderstandings , and because they wo n't talk , they do n't like each other .
29 They have a lot of songs , accompanied by dubbed-up cartoon backgrounds that irritate the shit out of you when laid end-to-end like this .
30 He works at the KGB like Jesus he clears out all the filth and drives people away , because they have a lot of crooks there ’ .
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