Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.

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1 He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it .
2 Anyone over the age of 50 , and in some fields over the age of 45 ( younger for women ) , should have given a lot of thought to answering an interviewer 's question about age .
3 We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’
4 In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion .
5 Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness .
6 They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making .
7 It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ?
8 It must have cost a lot at the start but they
9 But they must have cost a lot
10 I think he must have eaten a lot of it , though if it tasted anything like it smelt it must have been vile .
11 ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to .
12 I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations .
13 Er yes , I s suspect they must have paid a lot of money to have that done too .
14 That was another oft-told story in our family because it must have meant a lot in those days , owning your own house instead of paying rent to a landlord .
15 But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors .
16 ‘ They must have had a lot of replies , ’ said Penelope .
17 Well they must have had a lot of bottle .
18 Pete must have watched a lot of Open University programmes on the outside .
19 They must have sold a lot of tickets .
20 ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back .
21 But Saddam had to just play the whole game , and er , he must have got a lot of propaganda out of this , must n't he ?
22 He must have spent a lot of time out in the sun — running ?
23 Clare was , well , desirable to say the bloody least , and they must have spent a lot of time together writing speeches , or whatever it is politicians do .
24 I 'm sure you must have thought a lot about who killed Dominic . ’
25 Well she must have thought a lot of
26 If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school .
27 erm you might have lost a lot .
28 Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever .
29 They might have forced a lot of corners , but they created nothing from them .
30 You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today .
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