Example sentences of "lot [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 2 | ‘ She used to make them run round getting things for her not my father ; he used to make her get things for him but a lot of them would run up and get her cardigan for her . ’ |
| 3 | So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it . |
| 4 | Now the whole bloody lot of them will have gone to ground and the gods know when we 'll get another chance like this . ’ |
| 5 | These poor people have done no harm to anybody and a lot of them will have fought wars for a lot of these same people who are now deciding to put them out of their homes in the twilight of their lives . |
| 6 | A lot of them used to come in and religiously buy something every week . |
| 7 | A lot of them used to catch it . |
| 8 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 9 | There 'd be a lot of similarity to it , and I think if we 're honest a lot of it would come back to things . |
| 10 | I mean if we do n't have compatible systems , then it 's not going to make a lot of it will make a difference , but not going to make as much difference , but I think if we do it could it really could be revolutionary . |
| 11 | dare say quite a lot of it must have been spent in pubs as well . |
| 12 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 13 | And on H Little H and I 'm skipping through them because I 'm sure a lot of you would like to get to the tea pot . |
| 14 | The lot of you can roast in hell . ’ |
| 15 | Long time officials , lay officials , staff at the organization , you might as well face up to the fact colleagues , a lot of you will have to go . |
| 16 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 17 | If I said to you I missed Neighbours on Friday , what happened , a lot of you could tell me , could n't you ? |
| 18 | Said an excited David Bowie , minutes after the grand finale , ’ A lot of us would do a show like Live Aid every year until starvation was under control . |
| 19 | A lot of us would have to walk . |
| 20 | Sometimes all the lot of us would play there , marbles was another favourite game . |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of us used to play poker on the set or in the aircraft hangars on location . |
| 22 | Now I do n't think of us here and neither , certainly myself , I I would not claim to be any form of artist or expert but I think a lot of us can enjoy er getting our hands dabbling with paint erm paper mâché and other activities and in fact having that opportunity of ex enjoying those experiences that 's we ought to be able to offer to people in Cambridge and many peop children in schools they they do get opportunities but I think particularly amongst older people who 've never had that opportunity and I think you should be do so . |
| 23 | Mm Yeah , I mean , a lot of us could do with a month off . |
| 24 | Fil sounds a lot like you 'd expect the bulimic nutcase daughter in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet to sing , she 's got an echo box and she 's gon na use it , and her slightly amateurish technique is BTTP 's trump card . |
| 25 | For all his apparent certainty , the decision to throw in his lot with her must have weighed heavily . |