Example sentences of "lot of [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do if I were reprieved . |
| 2 | But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either . |
| 3 | There 's a lot of poorly people I 'm afraid . |
| 4 | What a lot of stupid people they are to listen to a preacher anyway ! |
| 5 | Back in Ephesians in the first chapter in in verse three , see it 's easy for us to say , well what a lot of stupid people they were ! |
| 6 | ‘ There are a lot of other things we can do to stop ourselves thinking about her ! |
| 7 | Seen a a lot of other things I would n't have seen if I 'd have been working down a pit or behind a shop counter or something . |
| 8 | Simon King knows a lot of other things you wo n't find in books : take his advice and learn to be your own badger expert . |
| 9 | That would have been highly embarrassing — and a lot of other things she did n't even want to think about . |
| 10 | Referring to the current recession , Mr Wallace said : ‘ Like at lot of other businesses we are under pressure at the moment . |
| 11 | There was a lot of other stuff he skip-read . |
| 12 | Compared to a lot of other people you 've got a lot more |
| 13 | The celebrated cases make the point that in spite of its ill-deserved reputation , Glasgow is actually more peaceful than a lot of other places I could think of … unless , of course , you were an innocent wee serving lassie in 1862 . |
| 14 | It calls his integrity into question in a really big way , it also by implication calls into question the integrity of a lot of other men you might come across . |
| 15 | ‘ We thought elegance and sophistication was n't quite enough , so we put in a lot of new stuff we 're going to use on tour . ’ |
| 16 | A lot of that stuff we 've got out the back on the bank is umm honesty . |
| 17 | I used to like a lot of that stuff you know the New Wave the erm |
| 18 | Then Connie would move into the sanatorium along with a lot of legal talent he had lined up to look after his interests — and Connie 's , too , of course — and I 'd head for home with my five hundred . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There are a lot of exciting things we have got lined up which we were not going to launch until we launched Taurus , but we will come out with these products . |
| 20 | In order to avoid a lot of painful algebra we shall further simplify the problem and work out the potential for |
| 21 | And before beauty parades , presumably a lot of these clients you would n't even get to meet would you ? |
| 22 | like a lot of these politicians they exploit the media as much as the media exploit them . |
| 23 | Sportier yeah well as you say I mean a lot of these words you would n't want chancing yourself , would you ? |
| 24 | A There are a lot of Tanganyikan cichlids you can keep in your tank , but I am afraid it is only large enough for you to keep a pair of a single species . |
| 25 | When st when staff ca n't all receive that information at the same time but they y'know they can read but they need the information but that ca n't all receive it simultaneously they as many staff many staff , one more and the last one is one you like computer stuff like that where you 've got a lot of detailed information you know that you want detailed information |
| 26 | Now electrolysis is the permanent removal of hair by the insertion of a very small needle attached to a machine and you press the button on the needle holder which releases current , and that cooks the hair , it actually cooks the root of the hair , but each hair has to be individually treated , so if you 've got quite a lot of coarse hair it can take a lot of time , and a lot of money . |
| 27 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 28 | A lot of old sailors you know er in them days , when I was a kid aye . |
| 29 | yeah there 's a lot of different designs you ca n't move the back of these |
| 30 | I work with a lot of different people we 've all got individual jobs that tie up with each other 's jobs |