Example sentences of "lot [prep] them [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 . |