Example sentences of "had a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheikh al Hassan had a lot on his mind . |
| 2 | through the crisis and she had a lot on her hands because he went to pieces and he had no other friend he had |
| 3 | But it was n't an easy task because he was dealing with Kirk who was running the company and wanted to make sure the picture was made on his terms because he had a lot at stake . |
| 4 | The truth was , she had a lot to be grateful for . |
| 5 | It was a night for men and we had a lot of men out there . |
| 6 | Jimmy had a lot of flair but it did n't help him win . ’ |
| 7 | The Sherborne trainer commented : ‘ He had a lot of problems last year , a bit of leg trouble and he was breaking blood vessels , but I think we 've cured both problems . ’ |
| 8 | In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line . |
| 9 | However , Mr Jeno Horvath , a member of parliament and legal expert , said parliament had a lot of unfinished business and had decided the public might be confused to see it dissolved but continuing to function . |
| 10 | She had a lot of appointments , particularly at lunch . |
| 11 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 12 | She had a lot of questions she wanted to ask him — his pottery — his plans , but she felt too filled with emotion at the moment . |
| 13 | ‘ The Mr Elmore who had a lot of difficulty with his mother-in-law some time ago ? , |
| 14 | David said : ‘ Kylie told me she wanted our romance to end because she had a lot of pressure from work — she was always very busy . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 16 | It would mean that our man had a lot of time available for manoeuvring . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We had a lot of trouble with magneto breakdown , ’ he recalled , ‘ and in every flight carried a spare one . |
| 18 | I had a lot of friends at school , and a boy friend too . |
| 19 | She certainly had a lot of milk . |
| 20 | ‘ I had a lot of marking to catch up on . |
| 21 | We got on real well and I had a lot of fun that week . |
| 22 | On a Russian tour when he had a lot of causes for dissatisfaction , snapshots show him still lively : pretending to drop a kopek into the hat Marcia Haydée holds out to him ; embracing a Russian colleague , Yuri Grigorovich of the Bolshoi ; thoughtfully watching a Russian ballet class . |
| 23 | The last magazine article came out on me , I had a lot of Christians writing to tell me I had it all wrong . |
| 24 | They wanted it to be rough sounding and we had a lot of discussions . |
| 25 | ‘ This worked against us in many areas of the country and we had a lot of losses . |
| 26 | He had a lot of power . |
| 27 | Obviously it had a lot of film and limited time to show the mighty effort of the physicists of 13 countries in overcoming the obstacles to establish the complex , gargantuan apparatus for the experiment . |
| 28 | This was when I was a girl and we had a lot of calves to feed and water . |
| 29 | Those poor men had a lot of problems driving in the poles to carry the lines and were obliged to use explosives on the last stretch over my land because they came across solid rock . |
| 30 | Some of Sally 's friends continued to sniff and one of them , who they all said ‘ had a lot of problems ’ , sniffed every day . |