Example sentences of "had [art] lot " in BNC.

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1 Astigmatism , squints , premature presbyopia , short sight , long sight , tunnel vision , barrel vision , migraine , Ruthie had the lot , and her glasses resembled some early form of periscope ; they were a circular , heavy-duty affair , with catches and locks and screws .
2 Eventually we had the lot , half an edition of the Encyclopedia Americana .
3 And er , he had the lot , W H M B , you see , and er he was n't Robin , then .
4 had everything done , it had brakes , had the lot .
5 No , there 's nothing downstairs , well Steve said he had the lot , the last box
6 Mike Yarwood and the catchphrase ‘ Silly Billy ’ had a lot to do with it , but more important is the fact that the Labour Party now belongs to a younger generation .
7 It was a night for men and we had a lot of men out there .
8 Willink as a lawyer had a lot to do with the administration of the Church and saw the argument that an archbishop must be able to bear a load of administration .
9 He had a lot to learn about operating methods from the people on the shop floor , but he could also pass on to them the fruits of his university education .
10 Jimmy had a lot of flair but it did n't help him win . ’
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 She had a lot of appointments , particularly at lunch .
15 Trinidadians , disgusted by their violence ( they captured Mr Robinson and shot him in the leg ) , nevertheless reckoned that poor people had a lot to grumble about , as the government slashed away at public spending to rectify past extravagance .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 But he had a lot to carry and it was time he went .
19 ‘ The Mr Elmore who had a lot of difficulty with his mother-in-law some time ago ? ,
20 Sadie had a lot to learn .
21 Secord remembered how they would get ‘ sermonized ’ , and how ‘ we had a lot to live down before we could do business . ’
22 ‘ I think the feeling between us had a lot to do with Skyways and the contact we had early on , ’ says Jason .
23 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 . ’
24 ‘ 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 .
25 It would mean that our man had a lot of time available for manoeuvring . ’
26 Ah me , the Home , Light and Third had a lot going for them .
27 Lord 's fitness had a lot to do with his rally from a 2-0 deficit in games but Newton did not help his cause by incurring numerous conduct penalty points .
28 Despite the result on Saturday you still felt we had a lot to do .
29 ‘ We had a lot of trouble with magneto breakdown , ’ he recalled , ‘ and in every flight carried a spare one .
30 I had a lot of friends at school , and a boy friend too .
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