Example sentences of "[vb past] a lot " in BNC.
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| 31 | They seen a lot of shit going on but I think they were impressed with home we coped with it all , ’ enthuses PD to the eager nods of Paul . |
| 32 | I encountered a lot of very drunk people in Prague , more than in any other city I have visited except perhaps Belfast . |
| 33 | Beattie as deputy leader devoted a lot of energy to trying to build up branches and Robinson , on becoming party secretary , hired the Party 's first full-time worker before himself becoming a paid official . |
| 34 | He devoted a lot of time to the personal relationships of politics and to conducting them in a mollifying , unhurried way . |
| 35 | ‘ In 1989 I crashed a lot because I put myself under too much pressure . |
| 36 | There 's no way it should be that complicated a lot of the problems are caused by the rules being so complicated that you have to be working in that particular field |
| 37 | She phoned a lot of numbers — for London seemed suddenly full of numbers to phone if you wanted help . |
| 38 | While burying him we sure found a lot of other bodies . |
| 39 | I found a lot of comfort in letter writing . |
| 40 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 41 | I found a lot of guilt and a lot of fear that I do n't agree with . ’ |
| 42 | They found a lot of legionnaires attractive . |
| 43 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 44 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 45 | What 's a good answer to that because I found a lot of people , we had that actually on our and one of them was that she . |
| 46 | and they found a lot of , you know , serious crimes going on in the Party and stuff |
| 47 | So at the beginning of 1990 , Mike Rex — on secondment from AECI — and chemical engineering student Joe Masih started charting the two — hourly process operator analyses and found a lot of variation . |
| 48 | Cos erm her husband was a farmer we found a lot of old really old ploughshares like |
| 49 | Well a lot , I found a lot of blokes in the infantry they were so scared of some of the officers and I |
| 50 | Did he need a bit of help with his I mean a lot of them did made them that sort of I just found a lot of was so so behind and so |
| 51 | We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after . |
| 52 | After my father left we only had each other and — and we moved a lot . ’ |
| 53 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 54 | This winning streak caught a lot of chess players by surprise . |
| 55 | ‘ You are quite right that the decline in the market caught a lot of people short . |
| 56 | And do you know father used to now where they used to and he used to go and caught a lot of them . |
| 57 | It sustained a lot of fire damage when the labs went up . |
| 58 | Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you . |
| 59 | Seeing the name in the paper triggered a lot of memories . ’ |
| 60 | I had agreed with the necessity of BAC and Hawker Siddeley being put together in one company , but having a nationalised company that involved a lot of civil servants and politicians was a ghastly inefficient way of doing things . |