Example sentences of "you have [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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1 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
2 | You have to do a lot of forward thinking . |
3 | To be a good cook you have to do a lot of things precisely , but it requires no understanding . |
4 | This means you have to do a lot of shuffling to achieve a respectable-looking document . |
5 | have to say a lot you have to talk a lot . |
6 | Oh yes , you say I 'm on a diet , they say oh well you have lost a lot of weight then . |
7 | Steve Astington says he was a rock climber and then moved over to marathons … this is his thirteenth … you have to put a lot of training in … he does them for the enjoyment it takes him away from life and all the stresses |
8 | Cause you have to put a lot of cream on your face to get the make up off and you do that especially if you 're doing two performances a day it 's an awful lot mess and much you 're putting on your face and you ca n't get it all off |
9 | Yes , so you have to put a lot of , like , mousse on or make it wet , no not wet , it stings |
10 | You have to clean a lot of brasses , but I mean I was n't gon na be put off . |
11 | Michael , you have done a lot of work both with and for Equity , what do you feel about the present day students ' dilemma ? |
12 | My , you have done a lot with your life … is n't it funny how one kid growing up in some little town will branch out and really make a name for himself . |
13 | He says you have caused a lot of trouble . ’ |
14 | successful showcases can create substantial industry interest in a band , but if you are going to pull out all the stops , you have to spend a lot of money with no guarantee of a positive result . |
15 | ‘ People have baulked at technology-based training because you have to pay a lot up front before you start getting the benefits of the system , ’ says Stephen Weil , marketing manager of CD-I Training , ‘ CD-I takes the hardware cost out of the equation . |
16 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
17 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
18 | But this time , all that is gone ; and it 's not because you have aged a lot , or changed . |
19 | Well , it depends , because there 's a committee that is responsible for this and you have to bring many erm recommendation letters and you have to bring a lot of documents and eye witnesses to go by this rule . |
20 | But saying that if you want a decent wage in here you have to work a lot of overtime . |
21 | I lifted them early because I did n't want to leave them any longer because they were going to get damaged and they were , they were a wet potato when they came up and they 've cooked wet , so I think that the amount of rainfall you have has a lot to do with it . |
22 | ‘ Angela , you have got a lot to answer for . ’ |
23 | Yeah you have got a lot of time . |
24 | It 's all experience and that 's what you have to have a lot of before getting your own way about anything . |
25 | You have to have a lot of plasters for your toes I believe |
26 | You have to have a lot of sleep . |
27 | I think you have to know a lot [ in chemistry ] , whereas with physics , what you hope to do is get general laws and principles that are applicable widely . |
28 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
29 | I just want to have the facility to do anything I want , and to be able to do that you have to learn a lot of things that you 're not necessarily ever going to use . ’ |