Example sentences of "[v-ing] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 2 | Now , we could be denying a lot of very experienced noble colleagues the opportunity to contribute to debates , quite probably through no fault of their own , as we all realize . |
| 3 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 4 | We should attend to the fact that knowledge of the external world means representing a lot of facts at once , so many facts that we lose hold of the idea of ‘ representation ’ . |
| 5 | At this stage , too , the allocation of parts and the standard of performance is becoming a lot more competitive — a foretaste of the profession itself . |
| 6 | You know I erm Hugh was talking about erm somebody being thrown out of hospital after gall bladder operation after only two days well fortunately these days there are one or two strives in er in in health care erm to erm which is very much easier to er , operate on people if you 're if you if you 're going to put them out cos the operation 's more er simpler it 's far less stress on patients and and , and they they 're becoming a lot quicker er , clearly if faded out er , the way is completed then er obviously things are serrated with with the chief executive of the health authority and I 'd like to give you this October when when the Chief Executive was . |
| 7 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 8 | ‘ She likes painting a lot . |
| 9 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 10 | Dominic and I were laughing a lot , because we were making up our own historical jokes in the style of 1066 and All That . |
| 11 | Laughing a lot at life can help you to live longer . |
| 12 | She was about to find herself a seat when she caught sight of him , in conversation with a rather pretty dark young woman , both of them laughing a lot . |
| 13 | She was putting on an act and laughing a lot . ’ |
| 14 | Quinn 's not that sort — he 'll score 20 without contributing a lot more and that 's simply not what Keegan wants . |
| 15 | This move considerably upset the Russians since , apart from anything else , it meant redrawing a lot of their maps . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been driving a lot . ’ |
| 17 | is he ? , oh he seems to be out driving a lot now |
| 18 | On the personal computer business , Platt said the company is ‘ gaining a lot of recognition ’ in what he called a ‘ ruthless ’ business , adding that cost-cutting had improved profitability , ‘ but it is not quite where we want it to be . ’ |
| 19 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 20 | And the the butcher was gaining a lot of business out of it . |
| 21 | He 's a bit angry now , and he 's swearing a lot to prove it . |
| 22 | ‘ No , he just kept asking for you and swearing a lot . |
| 23 | Cor hey you , we 're swearing a lot on that was they doing that for my benefit do you think ? |
| 24 | You can do much of the remaining internal work yourself , not only saving a lot of money on labour charges , but a considerable sum in VAT at the current rate of 17.5% . |
| 25 | Platinum will enable us to eliminate the use of the bureau , and get all of the information at head office on line as we go along , saving a lot of time and money ’ . |
| 26 | This makes the statement easier for your customer to understand and reconcile and will help you be paid faster , as well as saving a lot of time on queries . |
| 27 | But it 's not at all a bad idea to have a quick guided tour on your first day to get an idea of the layout , saving a lot of time asking the way and taking the wrong turning . |
| 28 | Well it was at night and I mean I was lucky enough to be working which is a thing that 's probably accounted for saving a lot of people . |
| 29 | The threatened dominance of the Microsoft Corp Windows interface once NT appears is pushing a lot of big names like IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , SunSoft Inc , Novell Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc toward standardising on some common look-and-feel features for Unix . |
| 30 | The spectre of the ubiquity of the Microsoft Windows interface is pushing a lot of big names like IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , SunSoft Inc , Novell Inc and Unix System Labs toward standardising on some common look-and-feel features for Unix . |