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 . |