Example sentences of "lot of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do a lot of drawing on the spot ; mostly the painting is done in the studio , working from drawings . |
| 2 | I 'm not erm , I 'm not going to be in a situation to record all my chat anyway , I do n't think , because of the erm , the amount of it , when I 'm running a course I do an awful lot of chatting during the day . |
| 3 | As he turned to leave , they became aware of a lot of shouting from the river . |
| 4 | I could hear a lot of shouting in the palace . |
| 5 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 6 | Rafiq was doing a lot of waving into the darkness , as if he expected something to appear — a deputation from the Noise Abatement Society , thought Robert , if they all carried on like this for much longer . |
| 7 | The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine . |
| 8 | Topknot , who had been muttering to himself , stood up suddenly and spoke very sharply at great length , with a lot of pointing to the ground and to the sky . |
| 9 | Saves you a lot of cleaning in the big house . |
| 10 | There was a lot of whispering in the nursery at bathtime . |
| 11 | There are currently 1.7 million people in the UK who have a TV but not a licence , and most will be doing a lot of viewing over the next couple of weeks . |
| 12 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |
| 13 | There was a lot of washing on the lines , which they had to dodge around . |
| 14 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 15 | After that I did a lot of arranging of the parts around the dynamics , and we recorded the whole thing at Eel Pie ( Pete Townshend 's studio ) . |
| 16 | At Sedgefield Magistrates Court yesterday , prosecutor Richard Parcell said Miss Batey suffered a lot of bruising in the attack and the boy was ‘ caught in the crossfire . ’ |
| 17 | Last night , Mr McNeilage 's father , Alan , said : ‘ There has been a lot of fighting in the area , and one of the officials of the fund which finances the operation phoned on Wednesday and told my wife about the problems . |
| 18 | ‘ I have to do a lot of travelling in the coming year . |
| 19 | Did you do a lot of travelling around the country ? |
| 20 | We did a lot of shooting on the ranges , practising unarmed combat in the middle of a boggy field and singing all night . |
| 21 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 22 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 23 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |