Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [art] lot " in BNC.

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1 I had to do a lot of talking to get out of that one , Folly .
2 ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching .
3 I had to sacrifice a lot of things in that movie .
4 I had to spend a lot of time alone , just thinking .
5 I had to use a lot of rudder to keep sailing on a straight course .
6 I had to take a lot of oddments as well , like the marble .
7 so I mean she 's , she 's she 's and I said to her when when all the things were going wrong with I had to have a lot of chats with her and said well you you 've got to prove that you can rebound from this
8 I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it .
9 In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places .
10 She always gets me into an argument and I have to devote a lot of time to the dispute .
11 No , it 's permed and is prone to being dry and frizzy so I have to use a lot of conditioner on it .
12 I have to do a lot of travelling in the coming year .
13 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 .
14 I have to get a lot of people
15 Sometimes I have to make a lot of noise with them and move my body with them like passion — and sometimes they just slide out very gently and do n't affect me so much , like a cooling system .
16 I 've found I have to have a lot of conditions .
17 Not like her , Maggie , she has to put a lot of effort into looking nice .
18 She has to do a lot of standing . ’
19 Did you have to do a lot of research ?
20 Erm would you have to do a lot of cleaning work as well in the kitchens ?
21 Did you have to take a lot to the pawn shop ? .
22 As I say , Well you 've you 've to spend a lot of time .
23 You 've to sit a lot in the shop , go to the back if you want to chat .
24 She had to use a lot of initiative and think on her feet .
25 After all , she had to do a lot of smiling in her business , too .
26 She 's only got two suitcases , so she had to leave a lot of stuff behind — like her tailor 's dummy and all the furniture .
27 From as long as I can remember , she had to rest a lot .
28 She had to face a lot of questions about Labour 's plans to tax the better-off .
29 Then there was some talk of placing portions in various magazines , so that you had to buy the lot in order to read the book .
30 What he meant was that you had to cover a lot of ground to find anything newsworthy .
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