Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [verb] a lot " in BNC.

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1 He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it .
2 I think he must have eaten a lot of it , though if it tasted anything like it smelt it must have been vile .
3 But Saddam had to just play the whole game , and er , he must have got a lot of propaganda out of this , must n't he ?
4 He must have spent a lot of time out in the sun — running ?
5 Well he 'll have to work very he 'll have to do a lot of work
6 If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government .
7 But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better .
8 He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental .
9 He would have spent a lot less time on the mountain if he had left a note in his car saying where he was going and when he was due to return . ’
10 But sometimes when we say that every person is only required to sacrifice a little we mean that the antecedently expected sacrifice is small , i.e. that the odds that he will have to sacrifice a lot are small .
11 If the hon. Gentleman wants to make a speech about the constituency of Midlothian , he will have to do a lot more homework than he did tonight .
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