Example sentences of "have [verb] to get [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 And I would n't be in the least surprised to find that that 's why your Miss Philimore has decided to get out . ’
2 ‘ The Government has sought to get out of small firms ’ way , ’ he said .
3 It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ?
4 But she has tried this once before , after nineteen helpful interventions ( eight from Becky , the rest from Minna ) on her speed , her gear changes , her posture , clothes and haircut , and — most often — on the roads she has taken to get out of London .
5 Althusser 's historical interest derives from the fact that he represents the only orthodox Marxist theorist who has tried to get out of Hegel while remaining a Marxist — though for many Marxists he did sacrifice Marxism in the process , which only suggests how closely Marxism and Hegelianism are intertwined .
6 The postal service in Oxfordshire has begun to get back to normal today , but not all postal workers are back , despite yesterday 's vote .
7 She is a teacher and has managed to get out of school early and does not tell us why she has left .
8 And I 'd got to get up , get dressed , get out
9 You 'd either a cart or a horse and cart , or a tractor and trailer , and you 'd nice peat , and all these heaps of muck and you knew that when there was n't anything else to do you 'd got to get out there and spread it .
10 ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before …
11 Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus .
12 She 'd read Shakespeare , Pete had n't ; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school , which he 'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles ' Notes .
13 For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up .
14 ‘ I thought you 'd managed to get out , ’ said Endill .
15 There had been things Crevecoeur could have done to get out , such as take advantage of the open invitation to take up with Cab 's natro group .
16 ‘ In heaven 's name , what do I have to do to get through to you ? ’
17 yes , that 's what I says , what the frig do you have to do to get through to these stupid people !
18 Germon said , ‘ Obviously we 'd have wanted to get back to continue if we 'd been in ( ND skipper ) David White 's shoes . ’
19 They may have tried to get in at another address without success .
20 I suppose I would have managed to get through without them , but it 's hard to imagine how .
21 Meanwhile , Wellcome was undergoing its own strategic review and had decided to get out of making vaccines .
22 What we 've got to get over now is the need for action straight away , not next year or the year after .
23 I 've got to get over to a village out on the Bologna road and I can easily drive there via Fiesole .
24 I think er on the er the walls , bringing the people in , is , if they understand that they do not believe er or that that within their heart , then that 's the difficulty that 's the sort of bridge we 've got to get over .
25 You 've got to get on and deal with the problem and forget it 's a crisis .
26 In 1967 he wrote : ‘ Human beings will become so used to being crushed together that when they are on their own , they will suffer withdrawal symptoms : ‘ Doctor — I 've got to get on to a crowded train soon or I 'll go mad ’ . ’
27 ‘ I 've got to get on with my life .
28 We 're all in this together and we 've got to get on with it together .
29 That you 've got to get on with your thing and get your shopping or whatever it is , done quick to get home to do whatever they do at home .
30 I 've got to get on .
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