Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [verb] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure you must have thought a lot about who killed Dominic . ’ |
| 2 | erm you might have lost a lot . |
| 3 | ‘ If you want to keep your job , you 'll have to do a lot better than that . ’ |
| 4 | Given that on average each Spaniard eats 66 pounds of fish and seafood a year , and much of it comes from Galicia , you 'd expect to see a lot there . |
| 5 | but it 's not that , you 'd have to have a lot of the fireplace ripped up . |
| 6 | You 'd have to eat a lot more . |
| 7 | As Merrill looked at him questioningly , he went on , ‘ Knowing , by then , just how you felt about the circumstances of Elise 's death , you could have done a lot of damage . ’ |
| 8 | So , that would be Freud 's defence , now , I suppose you would have to know a lot more about modern history , to , to know , if this was really true or not , but erm , the the er , question that Freud was really asking himself , really was , why did Wilson let us down , because Freud admits that he regarded Wilson , when he came to Europe as a saviour . |
| 9 | Now you 're one of a pair , it does n't mean that you have to do everything together , but the chances are that you will want to spend a lot of your spare time with each other . |
| 10 | If not , you will have to spend a lot more time and effort using them than is necessary . |
| 11 | You will have to spend a lot of time preventing tricky scenarios from getting any worse or keeping antagonistic individuals apart . |
| 12 | If I say to you that the typical buyer of your product is the wife of a coal miner , living in Yorkshire , with three children under ten , with a council flat , no car but a colour TV , you can start to deduce a lot about her way of life and , perhaps , her approach to the sort of product you have to sell . |