Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said . |
| 2 | The lump on my head had lost a lot of weight during the night and after five minutes under a tepid shower I was n't feeling too bad . |
| 3 | My tears have washed a lot of the make-up from that eye and there 's a black streak running down my cheek . |
| 4 | And then we had er our daughter and so the house was a bit packed cos her mum 's got a lot of kids |
| 5 | Her Mum 's got a lot of money cos ev you know Lisa sh , her Mum goes , her Mum 's gone can you hold this tin of paint and they 're in Sport , you know the trainer shop ? |
| 6 | The girls , Diana and Mary Rivers , had to work as governesses , as their father had lost a lot of money in business . |
| 7 | Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage . |
| 8 | There was plenty of salad stuff at least , her father had brought a lot with him . |
| 9 | Her mother had missed a lot ; a refugee on that terrible trek with Omi , the bleak years in a ruined city in a ruined country , the children coming late , work again … . |
| 10 | His roles have meant a lot of work in ‘ behind the scenes matters ’ , looking after the systems that underpin the Company 's computer facilities . |
| 11 | I am not convinced that the ‘ conceptual map ’ of our subject has changed a lot in the last decade . |