Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 you 've got to go for size of the
2 Well , I 'll tell you one thing , Monday 's not gon na be wonderful for me , I 've got to go into hospital for a little operation er b but seriously , I 'll be out on Tuesday , but I 'll , I 'll be away for the week er , because the Doc said do n't come back to , to work till a week on Monday , so I 'll , I 'll try and listen if I can , but what have you got for us ?
3 I 've got to go to bingo with she one night bloody numbers .
4 You do n't have to come too early only I 've got to go at quarter to seven .
5 Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure .
6 ‘ There 's always a self-imposed pressure , especially when you 're starting out — ‘ Shit , I 've got to come through big-time on this ’ — but you just have to let it happen ; if it does n't happen today it 'll happen tomorrow .
7 And if for the time being , that 's a high price , then that is one of the things that we 've got to accept as part of what 's going on in the Gulf , however painful that may be .
8 Mm you 've got to keep on top of it and keep with it .
9 Now you 've got to keep on top of what you already know .
10 ‘ We 've got to stay on top of this story ’ , said Tom .
11 Yeah , but er , this is usually you 've got to work on top of course you 've got ta
12 He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league .
13 At first it was very difficult , but now we 've learned to live from day to day .
14 As these lectures are concerned with the role of religion I have decided to look at Marxism in terms of two triads — one of commitment and the other of outcome .
15 However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas .
16 Or in the academic field , the ‘ priests ’ associated with the Ecole nationale d'administration ( ENA ) , the Sorbonne , the Foundation nationale des sciences politiques , the aggrégation , and the teaching and reproduction function have tended to struggle against autonomization from the field of power .
17 Firstly , it seems that in practice the word " fair " adds little if anything to the definition , and that the courts have tended to focus in practice on what is " reasonable " .
18 This can be seen to underlie economic change in the UK in that the older industrialized regions have tended to suffer in relation to the expanding regions of the south of England .
19 The people of Central America have had to live with fear for decades .
20 In the meantime , the two DTI inspectors , Mr Hugh Aldous and Mr Henry Brooke ( now Mr Justice Brooke ) , have had to listen in silence to a spokesman for the Al Fayeds publicly rubbishing their report .
21 Women are , however , very often left with the responsibility because , in the same way that they have had to worry about contraception over the years , men often do n't see it as an issue for them , or are reluctant and afraid to discuss it .
22 And he said we have got to get on top of there and clean all the ovens .
23 There is thus no doubt that on the older authorities the courts have refused to review by way of certiorari the decision of a visitor even though they were prepared to grant mandamus to require him to act or to prohibit him from acting in excess of jurisdiction .
24 Nevertheless , and despite these perennial financial difficulties , the BBC — and countless others — have continued to argue in favour of the licence fee .
25 Fish stocks have continued to decrease despite expenditure of over $1 billion during the last decade in building fish ladders , screens over turbine intakes and hatcheries .
26 Investors , especially the big institutions , have started to search for value outside the top 100 UK stocks .
27 Rainforest-dwelling people have learnt to live in harmony with their environment .
28 Even allowing for the reluctance of the courts to subject operational police decisions to judicial review , it may be apparent that the police have failed to take into account in their decision making a relevant consideration , or have taken into account an irrelevant one , which would leave the decision open to review .
29 be prepared with positive and well-reasoned responses for negative questions about your age , why you were made redundant , why you have been out of work so long , whether you have lost skills through lack of use , whether you have failed to keep in touch with your original skills
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