Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | But saying that if you want a decent wage in here you have to work a lot of overtime . |
| 2 | I think you have to know a lot [ in chemistry ] , whereas with physics , what you hope to do is get general laws and principles that are applicable widely . |
| 3 | I , I do hesitate myself because if I walk around normally I have to suffer a lot of abuse by , not by , people by who are walking round , but the people who are passing by in the cars etc . |
| 4 | I , I just have er I just have to drink a lot that 's you know put me in first class and full of drink |
| 5 | have to say a lot you have to talk a lot . |
| 6 | You have to clean a lot of brasses , but I mean I was n't gon na be put off . |
| 7 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 8 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
| 9 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
| 10 | Cause you have to put a lot of cream on your face to get the make up off and you do that especially if you 're doing two performances a day it 's an awful lot mess and much you 're putting on your face and you ca n't get it all off |
| 11 | Yes , so you have to put a lot of , like , mousse on or make it wet , no not wet , it stings |
| 12 | ‘ Some people , like kidney dialysis patients or families with young children , have to use a lot of water . |
| 13 | No , it 's permed and is prone to being dry and frizzy so I have to use a lot of conditioner on it . |
| 14 | You have to do a lot of forward thinking . |
| 15 | To be a good cook you have to do a lot of things precisely , but it requires no understanding . |
| 16 | This means you have to do a lot of shuffling to achieve a respectable-looking document . |
| 17 | ‘ I have to do a lot of travelling in the coming year . |
| 18 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
| 19 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 20 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 21 | She always gets me into an argument and I have to devote a lot of time to the dispute . |
| 22 | I have to get a lot of people |
| 23 | ‘ People have baulked at technology-based training because you have to pay a lot up front before you start getting the benefits of the system , ’ says Stephen Weil , marketing manager of CD-I Training , ‘ CD-I takes the hardware cost out of the equation . |
| 24 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 25 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 26 | Whereas pubs are different , they are out , they have to pay a lot of people and their rent and everything else and they are ours to make a profit . |
| 27 | I just want to have the facility to do anything I want , and to be able to do that you have to learn a lot of things that you 're not necessarily ever going to use . ’ |
| 28 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 29 | I think we have to learn a lot er of , of how to treat the AIDS virus , but er hopefully , er the scientists might succeed to find the vaccine . |
| 30 | It 's all experience and that 's what you have to have a lot of before getting your own way about anything . |