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 . |