Example sentences of "[v-ing] a lot " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 're certainly looking a lot better than when they brought you in . |
| 32 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 33 | exactly but because of that they 're playing the ball through the Forest er midfield and they are looking a lot better side . |
| 34 | ‘ Not in that respect , but I did think she was looking a lot older . ’ |
| 35 | Things are looking a lot better than 48 hours ago . |
| 36 | yes I 'm going to put some on your face when I 've got this rubbed into Richard 's Richard 's face is looking a lot better is n't it ? , right dab , dab |
| 37 | Oh well , the sky is looking a lot brighter . |
| 38 | No , I must admit your hair is looking a lot thicker and healthier . |
| 39 | Very technically minded , he had been instrumental in training a lot of young Directors and PAs in the art of using the television medium to its fullest extent . |
| 40 | The world 's great love of the panda could be causing a lot of the damage . |
| 41 | So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired . |
| 42 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 43 | ‘ I seem to be causing a lot of trouble . ’ |
| 44 | It was causing a lot of messages to be sent through the air , all around the world . |
| 45 | The M25 , that 's very busy now between junctions 16 and 15 , that 's the M40/M4 sheer weight of traffic and an earlier accident causing a lot of congestion around that area , so allow extra time for your journey if you 're heading that way . |
| 46 | The dunnos are n't just newspaper talk , either ; I 'm meeting a lot , as well as Week One defectors to Labour who now say they 'll vote Green . |
| 47 | I was a little out of control on the American tour , meeting a lot of girls and stuff . |
| 48 | You could imagine him guaranteeing a lot of things , or at least saying he guaranteed things a lot . |
| 49 | I was now increasingly worried about my recurrent hamstring injuries , the treatment of which was costing a lot of money , paid for by parents and girlfriend . |
| 50 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 51 | For instance , festival , trips abroad , more and more committees with more and more meddlers , hence more paper , more secretarial work , all these neighbourhood forums , liaison groups and area panels , all costing a lot , talking a lot and doing very little |
| 52 | Those are the bigger problems and in my view , those are real industrial injuries , costing a lot of money . |
| 53 | The young copper rushed bull-like at Sam , swung a terrific right which landed above the head , just displacing a lot of air ; lost his balance , fell to the ground — and as he rolled over quickly to make a scramble to his feet , Sam pounced with his booted feet . |
| 54 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 55 | I am writing a lot in my diary in mid and late May , but nowhere do I make any direct mention of the 13th . |
| 56 | I was writing a lot of tunes around my studies of that culture and then the Gulf War broke out and so there was more stuff to influence me . ’ |
| 57 | Before , you might be able to say , if you have n't got the right results , you can get away with padding out your lab report and writing a lot of background , so that would bung your mark up a bit , but this year , you can do that and you still end up with a bad mark if you 've got bad results . |
| 58 | He was writing a lot of plays now and was doing very well . |
| 59 | F : I have relations in California and that 's their favourite Park because they + enjoy camping a lot |
| 60 | We know we 're going a lot further for a tenner 's worth of fuel , and we 're delighted , ’ he says . |