Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that er , you know , has lead to a lot of misery in some cases , er , also I mean there 's question of viability of our own scheme and I er , think er you know , er there are a number of questions which I as a lay-man would like to be , you know , I think the seminar is probably the right to do that . |
| 2 | ‘ The order has led to a lot of interest in other parts of Europe . ’ |
| 3 | what has happened to a lot of these hospitals has n't it ? |
| 4 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 5 | As far as I 'm concerned I think Sarah has put in a lot of objections and all to do with and I do n't know whether there is any answer at all , I 've just got two in my bunch . |
| 6 | She has to get through a lot of work but always accept interruptions . |
| 7 | She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross . |
| 8 | Leicester have had to cope with a lot of injuries in the early part of the season the most serious blow the loss of Steve Walsh . |
| 9 | I 've had to put in a lot of stitches . |
| 10 | ‘ And that I have had to get through a lot of long silences with both of you . ’ |
| 11 | One thing I must emphasise though is that you will have to put in a lot of leg work and effort to find these places . |
| 12 | Robert Dunlop said : ‘ When I came today I would have settled for a lot less . |
| 13 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 14 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 15 | That must have gone on a lot |
| 16 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 17 | ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’ |
| 18 | USL and SCO are reported to have worked through a lot of their emotional disparity if not their pricing differences over this business of SCO adopting SVR4 . |
| 19 | They had to go through a lot of blocks . |
| 20 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 21 | I 've come to a lot of conclusions about myself within the last four months . |
| 22 | ‘ George Graham has been very supportive in the last few years , during which I 've come through a lot of problems . |
| 23 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 24 | But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then . |
| 25 | That 's something that we 've argued about a lot . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've got through a lot of work in the last four days , Chang , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 27 | Mr Wilson said last night that they had talked to a lot of the villagers and were determined not to give in to the vandals . |
| 28 | To Karen , that had sounded like a lot of Jessica 's most harsh and brittle statements , the harshness and the brittleness barely concealing something darker underneath . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've played with a lot of spirit and commitment , but people defend that much better when they are winning . ’ |
| 30 | Pilger had laid on a lot of beer . |